Re: [BUG] RTL8169/8139 based network card

[Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>]

On Monday 15 October 2007 19:05:18 Lukas Razik wrote:
> Kernel Version: 2.6.22.9 (and others)
>
> Hello!
>
> I've an issue with a RTL8169 based network card (the same with a RTL8139
> card and another system)
>
> # lspci -v :
> 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
>         Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit
> Ethernet
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
>         I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
>         Memory at f9fdd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
>         [virtual] Expansion ROM at 10000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
>
> At system startup I get the following messages:
> # dmesg :
> ...
> r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
> eth0: RTL8169sb/8110sb at 0xc4830000, 00:0c:76:a0:05:92, IRQ 12
> ...
>
> But if I try to ifconfig the eth0 interface, I get these error messages:
> # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>
> But if I try to ifconfig eth1 then it configures my network device which
> was detected as eth0 at boot time...
> ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.2
>
> This leads to errors with other ethernet interfaces...
> Any ideas what there's going wrong?

udev - persistent network rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/

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Ondrej Zary