From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756226AbXJOVWj (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:22:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751722AbXJOVWb (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:22:31 -0400 Received: from mail.atlantis.sk ([80.94.52.35]:34396 "EHLO mail.atlantis.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750909AbXJOVWb (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:22:31 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:22:30 EDT From: Ondrej Zary To: Lukas Razik Subject: Re: [BUG] RTL8169/8139 based network card Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:15:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710152315.43795.linux@rainbow-software.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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/ -- Ondrej Zary