[NBLUG/talk] "Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0"

Travis isrneonx at gmail.com
Sat Mar 20 13:41:54 PDT 2010


1. is the onboard Ethernet device supported by Linux?
2. if it's connecting to a router have you tried "dhclient eth0"
3. try a 3com nic card
4. try a different port on your router
5. maby reset your router...

try that and if you still get an error let us know.


On Mar 20, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Lincoln Peters <anfrind at gmail.com> wrote:

> Every so often, my parents' computer completely fails to connect to
> the network (it may or may not show an IP address for eth0 when I run
> ifconfig), and when I try to bring the network interface up or down, I
> get the following error:
>
> Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0
>
> What makes it especially weird is that I've seen this exact same error
> both before and after installing a new motherboard, including onboard
> network Ethernet interface.  Usually, if I shut down the computer and
> leave it off for at least several minutes, the Ethernet interface
> starts working again, but simply rebooting has no effect.  However,
> this time I shut down the computer and left it off overnight, and this
> time it DIDN'T fix the problem.  Which leads to two questions:
>
> 1. What does that error mean?
> 2. What could be the root cause?
> 3. Could the computer be cursed?  (Err...don't answer that one.)
>
> The computer is running the latest version of Kubuntu, and as of about
> two months ago had all of the updates (obviously I can't easily update
> it now).  As far as I'm aware, it doesn't have any unusual network
> configuration aside from running a Samba server.  Searching Google for
> the error message doesn't seem to yield any hints, at least not any
> that make sense to me.
>
>
> -- 
> Lincoln Peters
> <anfrind at gmail.com>
>
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