"SIOCSIFADDR: No such device" after restoring backup
- by Paul Tomblin
I bought some new hardware, and tried to restore my backup on it. When I boot, I don't get a network connection. If I type "ifup eth0" on the command line, I see the messages:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: No such device
lspci shows an ethernet controller (Intel 82546GB). ifconfig does not show any controller except loopback. I tried installing bare Debian on the machine and the network worked then, but now I want to make it like my old machine was.
Googling this problem only seems to find people having this problem in VMs. I'm not in a VM.