CentOS - Nov 2007 - Network Name issue

Hi, 
I've installed CentOS 5 on a Dell pe1950 with 2 dual port NICS. 
One of the NIC is an Intel and use the e1000 module. 
The problem is when the server is rebooted it does no asign the ethx name to the
NICs, instead the so assign something like _dev377362...
so i dont have networking on the server. 

Any ideas what is happening and how to solve it? 

Thanks. 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071119/75b05027/attachment-0005.html>

On Nov 19, 2007 5:30 PM, Patricio A. Bruna <pbruna at it-linux.cl>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I've installed CentOS 5 on a Dell pe1950 with 2 dual port NICS.
> One of the NIC is an Intel and use the e1000 module.
> The problem is when the server is rebooted it does no asign the ethx name
to
> the NICs, instead the so assign something like _dev377362...
> so i dont have networking on the server.
Do you have somethink like

alias eth0 e1000
alias eth1 e1000
alias eth2 your_other_nic_module_name
alias eth3 your_other_nic_module_name


in /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> Any ideas what is happening and how to solve it?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>
>


-- 
Alain Spineux
aspineux gmail com
May the sources be with you

Patricio,

 

  I had a very similar issue with a wireless Intel device coming up as 
_tmp29384792.  I found that if I did a service network stop and removed the
kernel module, loaded the kernel module and then service network start,
everything went back to normal.  I have not bothered to see why it loads this
way, as its only every few boots on my personal laptop.  If I remember correctly
people noted the hardware timeout before it completed loading, but this is just
a guess as to what it was as I never confirmed any comments people had made.

 

  This isn?t a solution obviously  to the issue, but does give you some steps to
see if the devices can be reloaded and work or not.

 

Trevor

 

From:centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Patricio A. Bruna
Sent:Monday, November 19, 2007 8:31 AM
To:CentOS mailing list
Subject:[CentOS] Network Name issue



 

Hi,
I've installed CentOS 5 on a Dell pe1950 with 2 dual port NICS.
One of the NIC is an Intel and use the e1000 module.
The problem is when the server is rebooted it does no asign the ethx name to the
NICs, instead the so assign something like _dev377362...
so i dont have networking on the server.

Any ideas what is happening and how to solve it?

Thanks.



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071119/f0c578c6/attachment-0005.html>