[elrepo] LAN driver install w/o network?

[James Bowery]

Resolved (sort of).

I had to manually create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and do an
ifup eth0.

If I had to guess, this situation arose because the NetworkManager service
is dead and I suspect the NetManager service is dead because when CentOS 6.0
was first installing, it couldn't find the device driver for 1969:1083 so it
went fishing.  Installing the driver for 1969:1083 and doing all kinds of
reconfiguring/rebooting didn't revive NetworkManager.

Here's the console log that I get when bringing up eth0 now.



[root at localhost jabowery]# ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:720 (720.0 b)  TX bytes:720 (720.0 b)

[root at localhost jabowery]# ifup eth0

Determining IP information for eth0... done.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ipv6: line 56: /etc/sysconfig/network:
No such file or directory
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases: line 125:
/etc/sysconfig/network: No such file or directory
[root at localhost jabowery]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 50:E5:49:2E:5E:FC
          inet addr:192.168.1.132  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::52e5:49ff:fe2e:5efc/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:9328 (9.1 KiB)  TX bytes:1555 (1.5 KiB)
          Interrupt:35

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:720 (720.0 b)  TX bytes:720 (720.0 b)

[root at localhost jabowery]# !cat
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
[root at localhost jabowery]#
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