Ethernet interface not found - eth0

Question

I booted an OS from a live CD. The OS boots successfully but eth0 fails to start. I checked lspci, it outputs these Ethernet card details:

(Broadcom Netextreme II BCM5716 GBabyte ethernet)

ifconfig -a returns only the loopback interfaces lo and sit0. The output of dmesg | grep -I 'eth' is:

"Netfront : initializing network ethernet driver"

When I run service network restart I get:

"Obtaining IP for lo [FAILED]
WARNING: Deprecated config gile /etc/modprobe.conf , all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/
Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization [FAILED]"

The output of MII-tool -v is:

No MII interface found.

I was also able to find the kernel module bnx2.ko. I did insmod and lsmod lists it. I am not sure what exactly is the issue or how to debug this problem. Any assistance or pointers will be helpful.

Answer 1

I believe that device also requires a separate PHY driver to be compiled. Look in the PHY section of the kernel config and select all of them as modules, just to be sure.