Bug 63939

Summary:	Network only works after restarting several times
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <a.velleman>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Need Real Name 2002-04-22 12:57:51 UTC

Description of Problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if 
applicable):
RedHat Linux 7.2.93 (Skipjack-beta2)

I have downloaded skipjack-beta2 and 
installed on a Compaq Armada V300 Laptop.
This laptop is provided with a Xircom CE3B-100 
Ethernet PCMCIA card.
Everything is working fine except for the following:
When I boot then 
the Xircom card is recognized, the Xircom driver is loaded and the card is initialized. (I hear 
two peeps).
I am be able to ping the IP-address assigned to my card and get a reply, however when I 
try to ping another machine on my LAN I get the error "no route to host".
When I look in my routing 
tables I see everything is fine (I compared it with the routing tables on my other machines)
The 
only way to get the network working is to restart the network with:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network 
restart.
Sometimes it works after restarting once, sometimes I have to restart four or five 
times.
When the network finally works it works fine and can use ftp, ping, webbrowsing 
etc.


How Reproducible:
Just reboot

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just reboot
2. 
3. 


Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional Information:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-04-22 14:02:02 UTC

What exactly does your routing table look like when you can't reach other
machines? Are you using DHCP or static IPs? What version of apmd and grep do you
have installed?

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-04-23 06:34:11 UTC

I am using static IP no DHCP:
IP:    10.24.48.201
Mask : 255.255.252.0
Default Gateway: 
10.24.48.1
DNS1: 10.24.48.51
DNS2: 10.26.4.51

My routing table looks 
like:
destination    Gateway    Genmask        Flags  Metric  Ref  Use  Interface
10.24.48.0         *      
255.255.252.0    U      0      0    0     eth0
127.0.0.0          *      255.0.0.0        U      0      0    0     lo
default        10.24.48.1 0.0.0.0          UG     0      0    0     
eth0

Version of apmd installed: apmd 3.0.2-7
Version of grep installed: grep 2.5.1-1

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2002-04-23 06:39:33 UTC

sorry but the routing table is messed up it should be:

dest       GW         Genmask       Flags  Metric  Ref  Use  
Interface
10.24.48.0  *         255.255.252.0   U       0     0    0    eth0
127.0.0.0   *         255.0.0.0       U       0     0    0    lo
defualt    
10.24.48.1   0.0.0.0       UG      0     0    0    eth0

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-19 01:35:08 UTC

This sounds like perhaps an issue with the driver.

Comment 5 Arjan van de Ven 2002-07-19 11:26:12 UTC

anything in dmesg ?

Comment 6 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:39:31 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/