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  1. Bug #215450
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 215450

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Paul L (plakra) wrote : Re: Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast not working u(Hardy 8.04)

I was going to raise this as a separate bug but might be related here. I installed Ubuntu server 9.04 on a PIII with an old 3com network card. Everything worked with the card recognised and using eth0 but I discovered it was only connecting at 10 meg. I discovered this is a known issue and found it too much hassle to change the settings on the card. Easier to replace it with a new card. The new card was from Maplin in the UK and has the Realtek chipset. I put the card in the same PCI slot as the 3com and booted up to find the network not working. Without labouring this, for some reason the card is allocated eth1 during bootup. There is a line saying:
udev: renamed eth0 to eth1
I renamed eth0 to eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces, restarted networking with /etc/inet.d/networking restart, and the network now works normally at 100 meg.
I assume the system has some memory of the old card and for that reason is allocating eth1 but is not updating the interfaces file to match.