rawhide eth0 not present

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Aug 30 18:04:17 UTC 2005


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> Steve G (linux_4ever at yahoo.com) said: 
> > I did, no real effect. And something keeps changing it to 8139cp. I also deleted
> > HWADDR out of ifcfg-eth0. Still, rawhide does not detect eth0 being present -
> > even though fc4 did. I tried a fc3 live CD and it properly inits the ethernet
> > card...so it seems we went backawards.

There's a fix for this in kudzu-1.1.122-1, in theory.

Previously, there was code that switched 8139too to 8139cp if necessary;
the new version has added code to do the reverse, as the probe that
reads modules.pcimap might return 8139cp as the driver for 8139too cards.

Bill




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