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You need to remove driver related to Ethernet card. Under Linux use following commands:
1) Find out driver attached to eth0 using following command
lsmod | less
2) Remove the driver using rmmod command:
rmmod driver-name
3) Again insert driver into kernel using
modprobe driver-name
For example, let us assume your driver name is 8139too , then your command should [...]

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Here are some interesting facts about running Linux kernel. Following information is quite useful if you are planning to compile your own custom kernel
But where is my kernel stored?
Your compiled kernel is always installed in /boot directory:
Here is listing of all installed kernel in my system (filename -> description)
$ ls -l /boot/

config-2.6.12-1-386 –> [...]

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