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

Andrew Morton
2006-10-30T16:48:11Z

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:47:00 -0800
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@google.com> wrote:

> 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.

What version of udev is being used?

Was CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED set?