From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc D Ronell Subject: Re: Network access fails unless tcpdump is running? Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:53:39 -0500 Message-ID: <87abyv74fg.fsf@corps.glidepath.invalid> References: <87y7mg4vm7.fsf@corps.glidepath.invalid> <20070301201307.GC3199@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> <87ps7s4rbx.fsf@corps.glidepath.invalid> <20070301212245.GD3199@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> <87hct44ka1.fsf@corps.glidepath.invalid> <20070302202658.GA15151@core2.greyhouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38211 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965612AbXCBUyX (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:54:23 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HNElc-0003mb-1F for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:54:16 +0100 Received: from pool-71-255-169-178.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([71.255.169.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:54:16 +0100 Received: from mronell by pool-71-255-169-178.bstnma.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:54:16 +0100 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org "Andy Gospodarek" writes: > > Any chance you can boot back to the old kernel (the one where is was > working) and run and ethtool -i eth0 on that one to see what version of > the driver was used there? It's hard to know what may have changed > between the 2 versions of the driver since I don't know the starting > point. > > It's also hard to know if this is fixed already since you aren't running > the latest upstream kernel. Downloading, building, and testing the > latest from kernel.org would be a good way to know if this is already > fixed. > I had already loaded, compiled, and tested linux-2.6.20.1. There was no change with the newer kernel. Network connections only worked when tcpdump was running. Similar for booting with an older kernel 2.6.17. I think the problem is not with the kernel, but with other system software. It could take a while to debug, so I am just rebuilding. Thanks for your help. marc