Digimer wrote:
On 03/16/2012 04:03 PM, Devin Reade wrote:
--On Friday, March 16, 2012 07:41:18 PM +0000 Ken Smith kens@kensnet.org wrote:
Hi all, I swapped a Realtek 8139 100M Net Card for a Realtek 8169 Gig Net card in a Centos 5.6 system.
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In some cases, they didn't get recognised at boot, either, whereas a subsequent reboot *might* make them come back.
I've seen the same behavious. Realtek cards are no longer an option for my builds. I would second Devin and suggest saving yourself a lot of headaches... Replace with an Intel NIC. The difference in performance and reliability is staggering.
If the OP doesn't/can't go out to buy another NIC, you might try putting HWADDR in ifconfig-eth<whatever>. If it was CentOS 6.x, you'd have to deal with /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net-rules
mark "just had this happen"