Bug 12141

Summary:	Linuxconf doesn't configure smc-ultra.o correctly
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	dcjanes
Component:	linuxconf	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2
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Description dcjanes 2000-06-12 18:29:38 UTC

I just set a box up to be a firewall using two old SMC Ultra ISA NICs. I 
set the interrupts and everything, started the network and my system hung 
(cold re-start, fsck needed).

The problem appears to be that the smc-ultra driver requires another 
module to be preloaded before it is loaded.  Adding a line like

pre-install smc-ultra modprobe -a 8390

to /etc/conf.modules fixed the problem, but shouldn't linuxconf take care 
of these dependencies?  The install program did, since this machine lacks 
a CD-ROM and was installed using http.

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-06-15 20:02:51 UTC

What does "grep smc-ultra /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep" on the affected
machine show?

Comment 2 dcjanes 2000-06-16 01:27:05 UTC

/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/smc-ultra.o:	
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/8390.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/smc-ultra32.o:	
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/8390.o

Looks right to me. I'm still using the stock kernel from 6.2, as the machine is 
not really connected yet. I plan to roll a custom kernel this weekend, probably 
from the virgin 2.2.16 sources.

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2002-06-05 16:24:02 UTC

Closing because we don't ship linuxconf anymore

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:47:41 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.