OpenSuse 11.3 Unable to configure the network card because kernel device is not present

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Whenever I configure my 82578DC onboard Intel Gigabit Network card and restart my machine I see two cards in YAST when my machine reboots: One mapped to eth0 without a kernel module listed and one not mapped to a device with the correct e1000e kernel module that says it isn’t configured. I delete the one mapped to eth0 and configure the other one with the kernel module. When I restart I get the same problem, but sometimes it works. The install disk is sound and I have the packman repository listed in software repositories, as was suggested in another thread. I can’t get the card to stay configured to eth0 and the kernel module and stay set between reboots. Any suggestions?

My lspci dump is:

linux-r0n2:/sbin # lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DMI [8086:d131] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0000]
00:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:d138] (rev 11)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Management Registers [8086:d155] (rev 11)
00:08.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Semaphore and Scratchpad Registers [8086:d156] (rev 11)
00:08.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Control and Status Registers [8086:d157] (rev 11)
00:08.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Miscellaneous Registers [8086:d158] (rev 11)
00:10.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link [8086:d150] (rev 11)
00:10.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Routing and Protocol Registers [8086:d151] (rev 11)
**00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10f0] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0000] **
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:424b]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0032]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 05)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:3b4a] (rev 05)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.6 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 7 [8086:3b4e] (rev 05)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.7 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 8 [8086:3b50] (rev 05)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:424b]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b02] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:424b]
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA IDE Controller [8086:3b20] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:424b]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:424b]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
00:1f.5 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 2 port SATA IDE Controller [8086:3b26] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:424b]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5670] [1002:68d8]
Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device [174b:e152]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series] [1002:aa60]
Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device [174b:aa60]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
05:00.0 IDE interface [0101]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II Controller [11ab:6121] (rev b2)

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Please post output of :
**cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules **

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It is empty.

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On 02/16/2012 10:26 PM, kg6ejp wrote:
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> please_try_again;2225792 Wrote:
>> Please post output of :
>> *cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules *
>
> It is empty.
>
>
-=WELCOME=- new poster!! but, this thread is over a year old…and, you
are not the original thread starter…

i find it difficult to believe you have exactly the same problem with
exactly the same hardware, and exactly the same output from “lspci
-nnk” as did tinman24601 in September of 2010…so, why are you
posting here?

are you running openSUSE 11.3? it is past its end of life…

if you are running 11.4 or 12.1 please post your problem symptoms and
hardware info in a new thread…

if it is a network configuration problem please post to the networking
forum…

and again, welcome!!

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On 02/16/2012 03:26 PM, kg6ejp wrote:
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> please_try_again;2225792 Wrote:
>> Please post output of :
>> *cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules *
>
> It is empty.

That file had a different name in 11.3. As I recall, it was
persistent-network.rules. If that file is not there, post the output of ‘ls
/etc/udev/rules.d/’.