Bug 28272
Summary: | ping to gateway fails | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Pat Grimm <pgrimm> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.0 | CC: | pekkas |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-06-09 15:03:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Pat Grimm
2001-02-19 08:12:40 UTC
Ok, I did some more testing. After thouroughly reading the Networking HOWTO my 3c509b I configured as follows 3c509b---- PnP disabled IRQ 7, IO 0x2d0 Tranceiver set to RJ45 PC BIOS---- PnP OS disabled I obtained a DSL router - Hawking PN9225 and set it up with my "other OS" to be a DHCP server. Verified operation with DHPC (I am connected with it now). Setup SDSL Modem--DSL router--Linksys Hub--NIC In RedHat booted to run level 3 did a ifdown eth0 and ifdown eth1 deleted /etc/.../ifcfg-eth0 deleted /etc/.../ifcfg-eth1 removed alias info from /etc/modules.conf removed gateway and DNS info from NETWORKS shutdown removed eth1 NIC reboot to run level 3 started x ran linuxconf set adapter eth0 driver 3c509 irq 7 set to DHCP Upon activating changes DHCP failed rebooted to run level 3 eth0 detected IRQ 7, IO 0x2d0 start eth0 failed lights on Linksys hub show activity on both NIC and DSL router port during eth0 DHCP request tried - # pump eth0 - still failed ran - # cat /proc/net/dev no errors reported for lo or eth0 I am at a loss on what to try next and have spent way too much time on this. If you could please look this over and provide some diagnostics I would be happy to help. Being new to Linux everything I try requires a steep learning curve. To me, this really looks like a driver issue, or some underlying confilt that is beyond my diagnostic skill. Here is the rest of my HW config for the record Abit VT6X4 MB http://www.abit-usa.com/english/product/motherboards/vt6x4.htm On board Via Audio driver lot loaded in RH7 (causes system freeze) Intel PIII 800E 100 MHz bus 256 MB Ram Elsa GeForce 256 AGP (4x AGP) Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI Card Please email any correspondence Thank you, Pat To get rid of the duplicate default gateway, move your GATEWAY= definition from ifcfg-ethX to /etc/sysconfig/network. The description of the bug is at: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19641 Try pinging with 'ping -n'. Do you still see problems? I looked through my hardware pile and came up with a 3Com 3C905-TX PCI card. After installing it and setting it up everything is working fine. I entered the exact same net config info that I tried with the other card. My conclusion: One of the following problems exists. 1. There is a error in the 3C509B driver ...OR... 2. There is some odd compatability issue with the 3C509B and my other hardware under Linux. If RedHat would like me to do more testing (be reasonable) I will be glad to help. I have previously posted all of my hardware info. Thank You, PatG Report on more testing: I scaped together more hardware. Intel Pentium 233 MMX on Matsonic MB 32 MB Ram S3 Virge/DX Video w/4MB Seagate 1.6 GB HD 3C509B NIC (wow, this system is a screamer!!!) Long story short. I installed TurboLinux 6.0 workstation (sorry) (Kernel 2.2.15) with just the basics, no X or other fancy stuff. After the install I configured the network just like I did before on the other computer. Everything worked great and I was able to get the NIC to ping to multiple places on the internet. So, based on my testing I say that there IS some obscure issue with my more recent hardware and the 3C509 driver. Is anyone interested? Pat This might be already be fixed (if it is a driver issue) in newer releases, but all in all, this appears to be more of a kernel issue. Changing component. Description fits an IRQ being used by PCI not set in BIOS for the ISA IRQ of the 3c509B. Old bug, not enough info to be worth keeping open so closing. Needless to say people experiencing similar bugs should still file a new bug about it |