[PLUG] Sony Vaio Will Not See eth0

[Dale Snell]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:26:52 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>    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.
> 

Which Atheros ethernet chip?  Does lsmod show the correct driver for it?

--Dale

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