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I installed CentOS 6.3 on my hardrive partition (new install...minimal install).

After successful installation, I see that eth0 was down

looked for 70-persistent-net.rules file under /etc/udev .. did not find it

Here are my ifcfg-eth0 settings: Note I had to create this file manually

DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=*
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=ETHERNET

This machine is connected to ethernet(I have Windows 7 on another partition and I am able to connect to Internet)

ifconfig -a | grep eth

returns no result

ethtool eth0

returns Cannot get device settings : No such device...

What can I try to get CentOS to detect eth0?

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What type of device is it? Does it show in lspci, as what does it get identified? Is it USB? lsusb ... – tink Oct 30 '12 at 19:04
device is a NIC. It does not show up in lspci. lspci returns command not found – Vikram Oct 30 '12 at 19:28
Can you try to install the pciutils RPM? Without that diagnostics may be difficult. Do you see any mention of eth in /var/log/syslog or the output of dmesg? – tink Oct 30 '12 at 19:37
grep eth in dmesg returns nothing. Could not install pciutils as it throws me this error PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host mirrorlist.centos.org" ...I believe this error again may be related to NIC card not available – Vikram Oct 30 '12 at 19:45
Try getting the RPM on another box, and move it to your centos install via e.g., USB Stick? – tink Oct 30 '12 at 20:08
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In my situation, I changed the network adapter configuration of my hypervisor after the installation of CentOS. What happened in this case is that the old interface eth0 no longer existed but a new one called eth1 did.

ls /sys/class/net
eth1 lo

I changed the network config /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to use DEVICE=eth1 and it worked again.

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I could not figure out how to fix this. I downloaded the netinstall iso version and that worked like a charm.

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