Bug 25550

Summary:	eth0 won't start after upgrade with rtl8139 nic
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	rvokal
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Description Gerald Henriksen 2001-02-01 22:21:29 UTC

Upgraded a Red Hat 7 machine with an Accton SMC2-1211TX network card. 
Guiness treated this card as an RTL8139 in /etc/modules.conf

After the upgrade eth0 failed: (from /var/log/messages)

Feb  1 14:25:22 nutmeg modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth0
Feb  1 14:25:22 nutmeg sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
Feb  1 14:25:22 nutmeg sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
Feb  1 14:25:22 nutmeg sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Feb  1 14:25:22 nutmeg sysctl: error: 'net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag' is an
unknown key
Feb  1 14:25:22 nutmeg network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Feb  1 14:25:23 nutmeg network: Bringing up interface lo:  succeeded
Feb  1 14:25:23 nutmeg modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent
than /lib/modules/2.4.0-0.99.11/modules.dep
Feb  1 14:25:23 nutmeg modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth0
Feb  1 14:25:23 nutmeg ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization.
Feb  1 14:25:23 nutmeg network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed

The entry in the Guiness /etc/modules.conf was:
alias eth0 rtl8139 

Changing /etc/modules.conf in Fisher to:
alias eth0 8139too

solved the problem.

Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-02-02 22:57:08 UTC

We (Red Hat) should really fix this before next release

Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2001-02-03 13:36:54 UTC

Please post 'lspci -n' and 'lspci -v' lines regarding your NIC.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2001-02-03 19:34:34 UTC

The problem is that the module changed names, and we don't migrate
it currently

rtl8139 changed to rtl8129 or 8139too.

Comment 4 sandy 2001-02-04 00:41:19 UTC

For some reason my rtl8159 was recognized with the new driver - 8139too -
and was set up properly but the second ether card, a linksys lne100tx v4,
was not found or setup during install - ASUS k7v, 750 Athlon, Matrox G400,
SB Live, 30 MB IBM 75GXP.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2001-02-06 18:04:31 UTC

*** Bug 24376 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2001-02-08 16:20:29 UTC

This should be fixed with the combination of kernel-2.4.0-0.99.25 and
kudzu-0.93-1.