Kernel 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5: eth0 dead

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:11:25PM -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
 > On 5/3/06, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
 > >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:58:54PM -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
 > > > On 5/3/06, Richard Emberson <remberson at edgedynamics.com> wrote:
 > > > >Just yummed kernel 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 for a
 > > > >x86_64 dell box and the eth0 connection
 > > > >stopped working. Going back to the previous
 > > > >kernel is a workaround.
 > > >
 > > > I am seeing the same thing, networking will not start with kernel
 > > > 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.  Running x86_64 FC5 on an AMD64  box with nForce4
 > > > SLI chipset.  Reverting to an older kernel also solves the issue with
 > > > me.
 > >
 > >Does booting with pci=nomsi fix this for you ?
 > 
 > Thanks for the reply, Dave.
 > Well, unfortunately, no it does not fix it.  When I try booting with
 > "pci=nomsi" I get a message saying that PCI doesn't know the option. 

Sigh, more breakage.
Can you try 2108 from people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC5 instead ?
That has it disabled by default.

		Dave

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