Bug 242743
| Summary: | via-rhine driver: Invalid MAC Address | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Don Vanco <don.vanco> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Ivan Vecera <ivecera> |
| Status: | CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA | QA Contact: | Martin Jenner <mjenner> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.0 | CC: | agospoda |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-12-09 10:22:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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(Sorry, it's taken me so long to look into this....)
The only thing since 2.6.12 that has changed around those lines is this patch:
commit b81e8e1f4a51556586f72711a165bc3a0de230f3
Author: John W. Linville <linville>
Date: Mon Sep 12 10:48:58 2005 -0400
[PATCH] via-rhine: support ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR
Add support for ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR to via-rhine.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik>
diff --git a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c
index fc7738f..e7b4bc3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c
+++ b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c
@@ -814,8 +814,9 @@ static int __devinit rhine_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
for (i = 0; i < 6; i++)
dev->dev_addr[i] = ioread8(ioaddr + StationAddr + i);
+ memcpy(dev->perm_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
- if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)) {
+ if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->perm_addr)) {
rc = -EIO;
printk(KERN_ERR "Invalid MAC address\n");
goto err_out_unmap;
@@ -1829,6 +1830,7 @@ static struct ethtool_ops netdev_ethtool_ops = {
.set_wol = rhine_set_wol,
.get_sg = ethtool_op_get_sg,
.get_tx_csum = ethtool_op_get_tx_csum,
+ .get_perm_addr = ethtool_op_get_perm_addr,
};
static int netdev_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
Which it seems went in as part of 2.6.15. I don't think it's a good patch to
remove since it does add the ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR support for via-rhine. I don't
have this hardware available, but it would be interesting to find out what the
hardware thinks the dev_addr might be.
Do you have any way to check the MAC address of the device? BIOS or another
kernel that seems to work fine?
I am going to ask Ivan to look at this since I have not had adequate time to help you on this issue. I am sorry about that. Don, I presume this is still a problem for you? Did you try to upgrade BIOS? Did you try a BIOS upgrade and what's your kernel version? |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Description of problem: It appears that there was a bug in the via-rhine driver circa 2.6.8/10 wherein at boot the via-rhine module fails to load because of an "Invalid MAC address". That bug appears to be back. Here's my motherboard: product: MS-7222 vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD version: 2.00 BIOS vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD version: V3.20 (11/24/2006) Here's the PCI info: 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7222 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 (750ns min, 2000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at e400 [size=256] Region 1: Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Here's what I see in dmesg: Invalid MAC address via-rhine: probe of 0000:00:12.0 failed with error -5 Let me know what else is required. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): install kernel How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL 5 2. Boot - watch network fail Actual Results: Expected Results: Network should have seen eth0 Additional info: Worked on older kernels / Windoze. Have tried fiddling with BIOS settings, booting with noapic or pci=routeirq, nothing helps