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boomshalek

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Registered: 2007-10-12

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[SOLVED] Upgrade: eth0 seen as wireless device, no connection

After upgrading to Linux 3.9.2-1 my atl1e based onboard Ethernet card could only be seen in iwconfig as eth0, but not in ifconfig. systemd dhcpd start job failed.
Restored my Clonezilla Image  to 3.8.11 base and everything good again. As I had no connection to the box, i did not take any other logs, sorry.

Last edited by boomshalek (2013-05-31 16:11:17)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgrade: eth0 seen as wireless device, no connection

Next time you try the new kernel, can you please post the output of:

iw dev
and of
ip link

BTW. ifconfig and iwconfig are deprecated.

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boomshalek

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Registered: 2007-10-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgrade: eth0 seen as wireless device, no connection

Next time you try the new kernel, can you please post the output of:

iw dev
and of
ip link

BTW. ifconfig and iwconfig are deprecated.

Hi ewaller

Thanks for getting into it. I tried to upgrade again just 15 minutes ago. Here is the output as requested:
iw dev

-bash: iw: command not found

ip link

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
    link/ether bc:ae:c5:29:37:99 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

EDIT (I was having a read about ifconfig and iwconfig being deprecated right now):
OK, I was able to establish a connection manually by doing:

ip link set eth0 up
dhclient eth0

This is a PC only connected through Ethernet, so I am looking to get this done by systemd at boot. Any hints?
EDIT 2:
According to the WIKI (netctl):

pacman -S netctl
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: netctl and netcfg are in conflict. Remove netcfg? [y/N] y
[...] installation [...]
cp /etc/netctl/examples/ethernet-dhcp /etc/netctl/
netctl enable ethernet-dhcp
reboot

Regards

Last edited by boomshalek (2013-05-31 16:10:24)