[PLUG] Sony Vaio Will Not See eth0

[Denis Heidtmann]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   Well, having decided to quit fighting the wireless access from the Sony
> Vaio, I ran a temporary cable from the office to the den until I get a
> permanent cable through the walls and across the attic.
>
>   Anyway, with the radio turned off (but this does not matter), and the
> Ethernet cable plugged in, the system will not see eth0, only lo and wlan0.
> Very strange.
>
>   I delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and reboot, but still
> no joy. I've not seen this behavior before in any of the 4 Toshibas, 1 Sony
> Vaio, 1 ThinkPad, and 1 Dell portable on which I've installed Red Hat or
> Slackware. Makes no sense to me that the system will not see the interface.
> 'lspci' shows an Atheros Communications ethernet chip.
>
>   Anyone have thoughts to share? If so, please do so.
>
> Sigh,
>
> Rich

For what it is worth, I just donated about 35-40 feet of exterior coax
to Free Geek.  But if the later comments are any indication of your
problem, you may not need the coax.

-Denis