a few days ago my server which was working without problems did not show its second nit in "ifconfig -a" anymore, not was it useable with pppd which has a working config and was just using my dsl modem a day ago.
i went back 2 kernel versions but still no interface.
so finally i changed the netgear adapter with a 3com, afer boot debian loads the driver:
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lsmod | grep 3c
3c59x 53248 0
mii 16384 2 3c59x,r8169
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[ 1.415917] *** EEPROM MAC address is invalid.
[ 1.415959] 3c59x: vortex_probe1 fails. Returns -22
[ 1.416092] 3c59x: probe of 0000:04:01.0 failed with error -22
theres a bug report about this problem for the 2.6.x kernel on the redhead bugtracker, the server is running debian testing with 4.9.0-1-amd64, in this bugreport they also show a workaround which could work in some situations but im not really sure how to follow the instructions.
anyway, my main question is: since the first netward card went "kaputt" from one day to another with no hardware changes to the system, could the mainboard/pci slot itself fail?
the server is using a i3 540 cpu...so its some years old.