Thursday, April 4, 2013

Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization on CentOS

When I use the command
# ifup eth3

I received the error
"device eth3 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization"

First thing first, Do check whether the network card is there, do use the command
# lspci |grep Mellanox

If the card is detected, do use this command to show the link. This will give you the clues on

# ip -o link

.....
.....
2: eth3:  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000\ 
link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth4:  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000\ 
link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
.....
.....

References:
  1. device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization from AR

1 comment:

TomK said...

There's a number of alternatives as well. Try this old post here for more hints including NIC renaming and UDEV stuff.

http://microdevsys.com/wp/device-eth0-does-not-seem-to-be-present-delaying-initialization-linux-networking/

Cheers,
TK