Am I trying to do the impossible???

I have spent many, many hours setting up my KnoppMyth system and am very happy with it so far.

I was hoping to duplicate the hard drive and install the duplicate hard drive into an identical hardware setup for some of my friends.

The problem I'm encountering is that when I duplicate the HD and re-install it in another setup consisting of exactly the same hardware, the ethernet ports are not recognized. I've tried running 'netcardconfig' on the new setup but it reports 'no ethernet cards found'

If I do a fresh install of KnoppMyth on the new hardware, it does recognize the ethernet ports, and allows me to configure eth0 and eth1 with no problems so the hardware should be good.

The motherboard I'm using is an Asus A8N-SLI Premium. There are 2 ethernet ports which use the 'skge' and 'forcedeth' drivers.

These drivers are compiled into the kernel that comes with KnoppMyth.

I'm not sure where to start looking to try and solve this. Does anyone have any hints?

Possibly:

thanks for the suggestion, tjc.

However, the puzzling thing is that when I run '/usr/sbin/netcardconfig --force' it comes back with 'no ethernet cards found'

It's behaving as though the drivers are not loading - but since they are built into the kernel I'm guessing that this is not the case.

Stupid question, but is the Network Peripheral enabled in the BIOS? I had a similar problem (different MB, though) today.

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Do a "ifconfig -a" as root, and see if you have a incimenting ethernet number like I do.

Mine incriments every time the device reboots. It's up to eth19 right now.

I don't know the fix, just the issue.