Debian 9 Networking Issue

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Installed Debian 9 (twice even) on this server. Was pinging fine during installation via KVM on IP xxx.xxx.98.106 (main IP). After reboot, nothing is coming up on eno1 interface. Any ideas?

 

[Tolkem]

Try changing this

iface eno1 inet static

to this

iface inet eno1 static

and see if that helps, which I think would since AFAIK inet should be before the device.

 

[Bashed]

Same error.

 

[Tolkem]

Well, it's not the same error, now the system sees the interface, it just can't bring it up ... read here https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/static-dynamic-ip-1 hopefully there's something there that can help you solve your issue.

 

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Unfortunately that did not help at all.

 

[f33dm3bits]

If it is installed use ethtool first on each of the interfaces to see which one has an active link and then configure that interface with the ip configuration in /etc/network/interfaces, so something like this.

ethtool eno1

Then check if it says yes where it says "Link Detected"
Once you find the one that has link create an ip configuration for it, that would something like you had before.

auto eno1
iface eno1 inet static
    address xxx.xxx.98.106/24
    gateway xxx.xxx.98.1
    dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

 

[Bashed]

ethtool is not installed and can't install it due to lack of connectivity

 

[Tolkem]

Unfortunately that did not help at all.

Try

ip link set dev eno1 up

Then try the ifup command again.

 

[Bashed]

I cannot believe this, still the same error.

 

[Tolkem]

No quite the same error, now it's telling some firmware it's missing. How did you create the VM? virt-install? qemu? Can you show the VM's settings? I wonder if there's something missing from the settings you used when creating the VM.

 

[Deleted member 108694]

You can get the missing firmware from here

bnx2 - kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git - Repository of firmware blobs for use with the Linux kernel

git.kernel.org