No eth0 with Kernel 2.6.14 -

[bobgoodwin]

Jdek wrote:

>Le vendredi 16 décembre 2005 à 12:21 -0500, bobgoodwin a écrit :
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>>Warren Sturm wrote:
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>>>Can you take a look in your /var/log/messages file and see if there is
>>>any error associated with eth0. Another thing to maybe try is to clear
>>>the bios ESCD or DMI.  This may have been what worked for me with and
>>>old recalcitrant system when moving from 2.6.12 to 2.6.13 first and
>>>later 2.6.14.  It is now running 2.6.14-1.1653.
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>>>On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:53 -0500, bobgoodwin wrote:
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>>>>               I updated Kernel 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4  to 
>>>>               2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 which seems to be an improvement.  I
>>>>               notice that "sensors" works for the first time since
>>>>               RH9  but  during boot it fails to find eth0 and as a
>>>>               consequence Firestarter crashes and leaves me with no
>>>>               firewall. Normally  eth0 is used to connect to another
>>>>               computer while the internet connection is via a dial up
>>>>               modem, the only service available in this rural area.
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>>>>               Things still work normally with the 2.6.12 Kernel I am
>>>>               using now.
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>>>>               Any suggestion on where to look for the ethernet problem
>>>>               is appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>               Bob Goodwin
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>>I updated the Kernel via yum again this morning to 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 
>>which made no difference.
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>>I also looked at the BIOS set up , the only DMI option's I have seem to 
>>relate to logging and about all I could do there was "mark as read."
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>>During boot I see a message about eth0  FAILED streaming by and dmesg 
>>shows:  3c59x: Unknown parameter `irq'
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>>And modprobe reports:
>>modprobe -v  3c59x
>>insmod /lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1653_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko irq=10
>>FATAL: Error inserting 3c59x 
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1653_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko): Unknown 
>>symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
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>>dmesg shows:  3c59x: Unknown parameter `irq'
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>>System-config-network and Webmin both fail to configure eth0,  producing 
>>error messages after going through the configuration routine.
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>>I can still use the earlier Kernel but would like to get this 
>>straightened out.
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>>Thanks.
>>
>>Bob Goodwin
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>Have a look in your /etc/modprobe.conf and check for alias eth0 (followed by your network module, depending on the chipset on your MB)
>Try and comment the line where the options of the network module
>displays "irqnn"
>Perhaps should help
>Jdek 
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            Ok, it looks like that fixed the problem.  I commented the
            line as you suggested and so far so good!  It looks like
            things are working again.  I am writing this using the
            newest Kernel ...

            cat  /etc/modprobe.conf
            alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
            options snd-card-0 index=0
            options snd-ens1371 index=0
            remove snd-ens1371 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null
            2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ens1371
            alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
            alias net-pf-10 off
            # options 3c59x irq=10
            alias eth0:0 3c59x

            Thank you for the assistance.

            Bob