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[ts-7000] Re: Losing eth0 Interface on 7800

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Losing eth0 Interface on 7800
From: "foobarbecue" <>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:14:40 -0000
Just ran into this problem myself. It seems that the network interface is now 
eth1, so I just changed eth0 to eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces . No idea why 
this would happen, but it definitely happened after I set up booting straight 
to SD card rather than via the busybox thing.

Aaron

--- In  "Robert Joslyn" <> wrote:
>
> After playing with it more, it seems that it's not related to editing
> /etc/network/interfaces.  If I boot into the fresh image, networking
> works.  As soon as I reboot the board, it'll lose eth0 as mentioned
> below.  What could cause it to work on the first boot, but not
> subsequent boots?
> 
>  
> 
> Robert
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From:   On Behalf
> Of Robert Joslyn
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 10:57 AM
> To: 
> Subject: [ts-7000] Losing eth0 Interface on 7800
> 
>  
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> I thought I'd try out the new dd image for the TS-7800 on the FTP site
> (2G-mSD-7800-10-10-10.dd.gz), but have been having some trouble with the
> network.  Booting the new image works great, but if I modify
> /etc/network/interfaces in any way, eth0 will disappear when restarting
> the network or rebooting.  For example, this is what the board says on
> boot now:
> 
>  
> 
> Setting up networking....
> 
> Configuring network interfaces...Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client
> V3.1.1
> 
> Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
> 
> All rights reserved.
> 
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
> 
>  
> 
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> 
> eth0: E RROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> 
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> 
> Bind socket to interface: No such device
> 
> Failed to bring up eth0.
> 
> done.
> 
>  
> 
> It seems that eth0 has disappeared, and ifconfig only shows the loopback
> device.  Putting the config file back to the default settings
> (192.168.0.50, etc) does not fix the problem.  Any ideas?
> 
>  
> 
> Robert
>




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