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Hey,
So I moved my installation to a new motherboard but ifconfig doesn't list any of my network interfaces (internal ethernet, and I tried 3 different pci network cards) all with no prevail. I don't want to make a new installation as I have a comfortable setup. I just want to get it back on the network again. Ps the installation is headless (cli only)

If someone could help me get the server back online I would greatly appreciate it
Thank you

If your installation is headless, but you currently have no working NIC on the server, then there's no way to troubleshoot it. You will need to connect a keyboard/mouse/monitor for a little while to fix things.

The likely issue, is that the new motherboard's NIC is likely addressed as eth1 instead of eth0, which is the default interface Amahi uses.

There's a way to change it, but it's a bit involved. Google it .. sure it can't be too far away.

in the meantime, check to see that Linux can at least see your NIC with a
(hoping it's part of the pci decice tree)

Thanks for the quick response.
I am familiar with linux, although I don't know much about linux and networking.
I ran lspci (naturally I can't copy and paste the output) but the internal network card and the dlink pci one I last installed in the server are listed there.
Is there any way I can see what the network cards are mapped as (as in eth1, eth0 etc) I always assumed that ifconfig would list all of them on a system but I could easily be wrong.
Was this the method to change the network interface you were talking about?
http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/ETH1

I'm currently in class at the university so I'll give it an attempt to fix when I get home tonight if it is.
Thank you for your help, it is deeply appreciated,

Daniel

Found it:

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Binding_Network_Devices

Yea be very careful.

As for seeing what's found/bound .. look at the network menu item from the fedora desktop... or even the control panel items. There's bound to be a listing of your interfaces.
The other commands for finding interfaces, I'm not quite familiar with. May need some more homework to find em.

I changed the bind name for the network card I want to use to eth0 but when I run
/etc/init.d/network restart
I get the error
Device eth0 has different MAC address then expected. I got the feeling there is another file I need to change the address in.

Update

I fixed it. I went into /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices and edited the file ifcfg-eth0 to comment out the line starting HWADDR=
Restarted and works like a charm. Thank you so much for your help