ubuntu 8.10 /dev/eth0 problem

[Pedro I. Sanchez]

On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 08:43 -0500, Jose wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I got a new ubuntu 8.10 loaded on my machine, and the network does not 
> work, I have a couple of other partitions loaded with Centos and Suse, 
> and the nec work well on those, I even tried loading mythbuntu based on 
> 8.10 and same problem.
> 
> I noticed during boot up and displays some messages after the part of 
> loading the network, saying something about some libraries, couldn't get 
> the name because of goes so fast.
> 
> I tried setting the interfaces file statically does not work because 
> eth0 it doesn't exists, ifup only shows more error messages saying the 
> device is not there, which is true, goggleing around I found there seem 
> to be something broken with it's network manager, I removed tried again, 
> same problem.
> 
> Does anybody has found a problem like this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jose
> 

It might be that udev is changing the name of the interface during boot
up, for instance from eth0 to eth1. Your static configuration must then
attempt to configure eth1. Try something like:

dmesg|grep eth

to see if this is happening.

-- 
Pedro