I want to move my NIC two PCI slots down to improve airflow to my video card.
On reboot I had no network and eth0 was reported as not configured.
I tried giving it eth2 name in “edit” options in Yast Network Settings and changing Device in Routing to “eth2”, “-” and “lo” and setting all static IP and gateway settings.
What I achieved was that Yast showed the card as configured and started on boot but network was still unreachable.
Am doing it right? What should be the correct procedure for physically moving NIC?
12.2 Xfce desktop, network traditional with ifup.
On Fri 22 Mar 2013 02:56:02 AM CDT, Stan Ice wrote:
I want to move my NIC two PCI slots down to improve airflow to my video
card.
On reboot I had no network and eth0 was reported as not configured.
I tried giving it eth2 name in “edit” options in Yast Network Settings
and changing Device in Routing to “eth2”, “-” and “lo” and setting all
static IP and gateway settings.
What I achieved was that Yast showed the card as configured and started
on boot but network was still unreachable.
Am doing it right? What should be the correct procedure for physically
moving NIC?
12.2 Xfce desktop, network traditional with ifup.
Hi
There is a BIOS setting to reset the data for interrupts so it
discovers the new location of the card. Should be something like “Reset
Configuration Data” change this to yes and reboot (it flips back to no
on reboot 
).
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 1 day 1:11, 3 users, load average: 1.44, 1.38, 1.28
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile
Finally got a chance to restart the computer after it overheated again, “Reset Configuration Data” was buried elsewhere in BIOS, not in the section dealing with PCI. Found it, enabled, and network is back up again.
Big thanks.