Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors

Martin J. Bligh
2006-10-30T15:52:23Z

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc3/2.6.19-rc3-mm1/
>>
>> - ia64 doesn't compile due to improvements in acpi. I already fixed a huge
>> string of build errors due to this and it's someone else's turn.
>>
>> - For some reason Greg has resurrected the patches which detect whether
>> you're using old versions of udev and if so, punish you for it.
>>
>> If weird stuff happens, try upgrading udev.
>
> I have four machines showing problems with 2.6.19-rc3-mm1. In each case
> they appear to have lost their ethernet cards completely. I have a
> ppc64 using ibm_veth, two ppc64's using e1000's and an x86_64 using a
> Tigon 3.
>
> Before I had results from the non e1000 machines I did try backing out
> all e1000 patches to no effect. I also had a quick scan of the
> changelogs for net/ and nothing jumped out at me.
>
> Any suggestions what to hack out next?

At least on one machine with 8 tg3 cards, it finds all its interfaces,
but then drops into:

Setting up network interfaces:
lo
lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
7[?25l[1A[80C[10D[1;32mdone[m8[?25h eth0
No configuration found for eth0
7[?25l[1A[80C[10D[1munused[m8[?25h eth1
No configuration found for eth1

for all 8 cards.
(

Other ones just do this:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .7[?25l[80C[10D[1;32mdone[m8[?25h
[m[?25hSetting up network interfaces:
e1000: 0000:c8:01.0: e1000_probe: (PCI-X:133MHz:64-bit) 00:09:6b:6e:80:42
lo
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
7[?25l[1A[80C[10D[1;32mdone[m8[?25hWaiting for mandatory devices:
eth-id-00:09:6b:6e:80:42
19 e1000: 0000:c8:01.1: e1000_probe: (PCI-X:133MHz:64-bit) 00:09:6b:6e:80:43
e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
eth-id-00:09:6b:6e:80:42 No interface found

(http://test.kernel.org/abat/59143/debug/console.log)

Sorry about the jibberish logs. Seems like SLES takes it upon itself
to spew random "enhanced" shit on bootup.

M.