ethernet doesn't work on 2older machines

[fromport]

I installed ubuntu dapper flight 4 (including upgrades afterwards to current available version) on 2 older machines:
via c3 & pentium 266mmx board (panasonic dm-x10 blood pressure machine ;-)

Ethernet card is recognised but nu dhcp address is received

Mar 8 15:42:09 ts1 kernel: [ 74.942859] eth0: VIA Networking Velocity Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Mar 8 15:42:09 ts1 kernel: [ 74.942976] eth0: Ethernet Address: 10:00:50:30:01:19

Running dhclient eth0 gives:

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

if i do this:
/etc/init.d/udev stop
rmmod via_velocity
modprobe via_velocity
Mar 8 15:43:54 ts1 kernel: [ 232.818256] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 12 (level, low) -> IRQ 12
Mar 8 15:43:54 ts1 kernel: [ 232.820762] eth0: VIA Networking Velocity Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Mar 8 15:43:54 ts1 kernel: [ 232.821536] eth0: Ethernet Address: 10:00:50:30:01:19

and then dhclient eth0
Mar 8 15:43:58 ts1 kernel: [ 237.143247] Velocity is AUTO mode
and the ip address is fetched through dhcp

2 (older) machines have the same problem.

Ideas anyone ?

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Run "ifconfig -a" at the point you try dhclient ... I suspect you'll find the card is actually called "eth1" at that point, and that "dhclient eth1" would work.

If that's the case, check /etc/iftab to see whether the eth0 name is reserved for a different card (this is written by the installer)

[Danny (dth)]

Quoting Scott James Remnant (<email address hidden>):
> Run "ifconfig -a" at the point you try dhclient ... I suspect you'll
> find the card is actually called "eth1" at that point, and that
> "dhclient eth1" would work.

ifconfig -a showed only eth0 (no eth1)

> If that's the case, check /etc/iftab to see whether the eth0 name is
> reserved for a different card (this is written by the installer)

in iftab indeed other mac address was reserved for eth0.
I installed it on my laptop and moved the harddisk to the
bloodpressure monitor ;-)
http://www.dth.net/gallery2/v/projects/panasonic+dm-x10/

After changing the mac address in /etc/iftab it indeed
now works !

thanks!

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