Last two F7 kernels result in no network connection

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:19:53PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Guido Ledermann wrote:
 >  > Am Montag, den 26.02.2007, 14:56 -0500 schrieb Dave Jones:
 >  > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:07:56AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
 >  > >  > On 2/24/07, Gerry Tool <gerrytool at gmail.com> wrote:
 >  > >  > >
 >  > >  > >
 >  > >  > >
 >  > >  > > On 2/17/07, Guido Ledermann <guido.ledermann at googlemail.com> wrote:
 >  > >  > > >
 >  > >  > > > Doen't work here folks. Even setting eth0 in promiscous mode I can't
 >  > >  > > > ping anything else than my own ip. I hope this is fixed with the next
 >  > >  > > > kernel.
 >  > >  > > >
 >  > >  > > > This is still true with the latest kernel today, 2/24/07, #2942.  Is
 >  > >  > > there some setting that corrects this?  I have selinux disabled (makes no
 >  > >  > > difference.)  I can't even ping other computers on my local network.  DHCP
 >  > >  > > on the router did give me a valid IP address and even the name server IPs
 >  > >  > > are correct.
 >  > >  > 
 >  > >  > Still true 2/26 with kernel 2947.
 >  > > 
 >  > > What NIC ?
 >  > 
 >  > This seems to hit all of "CK804 Ethernet Controller" at least.
 > 
 > Ok, I'll cc Ayaz, as he did some of the recent optimisations to the forcedeth driver.
 > 
 > Ayaz, this is a regression with the current code in v.2.6.21rc1 that recently
 > occured since v.2.6.20.

Ah, this is already reported upstream at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8090

For now, I'll back out the changes for the next rawhide kernel

		Dave

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