[aclug-L] NIC gone

[Wayne White <WWHITE1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday I installed Open Linux 2.3 on a spare machine. It installed fine
and all was right with the world. This morning I shut it down do rearrange
some cables. When it booted back up it couldn't initialize the eth0. I get
the following two messages. "eth) unknown interface  no such device" and
"eth0 initialization failed." Yesterday eth0 worked fine. The lights on
both the NIC and my hub are on. The network cable is in place. I find no
eth0 in the /dev directory, although I'm not sure that I should. 

I suspect that there was some temporary file left from the install that
allowed the machine to see eth0 until the first reboot. That makes me think
that there is probably a file somewhere that can be edited to make the
machine recognize its eth0 again. Is that the case? I don't find any
configuration utility in Open Linux that would make a change so that eth0
would once again be seen. The machine seems to want to initialize eth0 but
just can't find it. How would I tell it where to look?

This is all based on a novice's assumptions, so if I'm wrong about this
stuff set me straight. I would appreciate any help I could get with this. I
wanted to fool around with OL for a while, but need the network connection
to work.

TIA,

Wayne