Jerry Geis wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:21 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> / Ralph Angenendt wrote: > />/ > Jerry Geis wrote: > />/ >> Only thing to add here is the network card does work, however I > />/ >> get a dmesg output that eth1 has an invalid MAC address. > />/ > />/ > Asus mainboard? />/ > />/ >> Is that invalid MAC address > changing my setup? I dont think it should. > />/ >> granted I'm still looking at finding a way to reset he MAC > address or > />/ >> something but I dont think the ifcfg-eth files should be modified. > />/ > />/ > The random address is different from the one which is in > ifcfg-eth* from > />/ > installation. />/ > />/ >> This seems like a bug- that is the > reason for the post. > />/ > />/ > Yes. Googling around hints at this being a BIOS bug. Also see > />/ > <http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1949>. > />/ />/ Can you fix this by removing the: > />/ HWADDR= > />/ line from the ifcfg-eth* files? Most of my machines have swappable > />/ drive carriers and I routinely swap them and clone machines by > dd'ing />/ the raw disks. If I remove the HWADDR entry I can assign the > IP />/ addresses when building the disks and have it come up correctly > when the />/ disk is installed in some remote machine. I suppose > someday this will />/ break when I'm not looking, but it has saved me a > lot of trouble over />/ the last several years. Now if the kernels > would just be consistent />/ about the order they probe the devices and > assign the eth* names.... > / > > I actually tried setting the HWADDR= to another NIC's value, did not > matter file still replaced with a DHCP type file. > I tried removing the HWADDR and file was still replaced with a DHCP type > file. > > Strange thing is I have 2 identical motherboards M2N-MX ASUS, two > identical network cards. the other machine > appears to running fine... Its just this one machine that gives the bad > MAC message in dmesg and will not keep its IP address. > Do you have files under /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/? I've seen those override the ones in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts but I've never found documentation for the circumstances that cause them to be used. I usually delete them all to avoid surprises. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com