Gateway MX7120 laptop with network devices: * Marvell 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller * Broadcom BCM4138 [Airforce One 54g] wireless LAN Controller While I was testing the wireless interface, I used s-c-n to remove the eth0 interface, since I recalled that I could remove it and later recreate it under F7. On F8, however, I can't find any sequence of operations that lets me recreate eth0 . If I remove all of the interfaces and start s-c-n, the "Devices" tab shows no devices at all, which is what I expected. However, the "Hardware" tab shows the single piece of hardware: Broadcom BCM4318 / Ethernet / eth0 / OK I can't seem to do anything that will recreate my original (wired) eth0 interface. If I go under "Devices" and select "New" and "Ethernet", one of the choices I'm given is the Broadcom interface. There's nothing I can see that gives me a choice of that Marvell network controller to rebuild eth0. Shouldn't I be able to do that? Possibly more to follow depending on some more tests.
Additional info related to configuring the wireless interface: I've installed the "b43" firmware to support the Broadcom chip, and added the line alias wlan0 b43 to /etc/modprobe.conf. Once I've done that, then with s-c-n, I can add a new "Wireless" device and I'm given the choice of "b43 (wlan0)", which is what I expect, and that configuration works fine and the wireless interface comes up. I then have a working wlan0 interface, but "ifconfig" also shows me an eth0 interface, although there's nothing I can do with it, and it has no DHCP-assigned IP address. This seems to be just another instance of the original problem -- I can't seem to find a way to recreate the Marvell controller eth0 interface that I deleted through s-c-n.
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