Bug 97466
Summary: | USB networking reconfigures ethernet cards by creating aliases and makes them unusable | ||||||||||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Dr Julian Fidge <jfidge> | ||||||||||||
Component: | redhat-config-network | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> | ||||||||||||
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||||||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||||||||
Version: | 9 | ||||||||||||||
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Hardware: | i686 | ||||||||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||||||
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Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:56:45 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||||||
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Description
Dr Julian Fidge
2003-06-16 12:41:56 UTC
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maybe you should remove the 3com from your hardware device list in redhat-config-network? Created attachment 92440 [details]
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf file showing no 3COM card installed...
There is no longer a 3COM ethernet card in the machine, and kudzu detected this
and unconfigured it. The hwconf file shows it is no longer configured in this
machine.
Perhaps the RH network configurator thinking there is still a 3COM card is
another bug, separate to the USB alias problem, but related???
Anyway, last time I played with RH network configurator I lost access and had
to re-install Shrike, so I'm not willing to remove it via the network
configurator again.
There is a Broadcom, onboard NIC which is NOT detected by the RH network
configurator, as I said above and demonstrated with the screen shots.
Puzzling, isn't it?
Thanks,
Julian, Brisbane, Australia
r-c-n checks /etc/modules.conf, uses kudzu and the ethertool interface... So, if there is an entry modules.conf for the 3com driver... you may also try the updates from: http://people.redhat.com/harald/redhat-config-network/ Created attachment 92443 [details]
/etc/modules.conf file showing 3 aliases - including the 3c501 (3COM ethernet card)
This file is a little too terse for me to understand, except that it contains
some of the aliases which are troubling me including the non-existent 3COM
card.
Is it possible to configure the USB port? I'd be game to try that on my side
machine which has been affected in a similar way.
There also seems to be a problem with both RH network configurator in that it
thinks eth0 is a 3COM card, not the BroadCom onboard card which it is, and it
doesn't see the 3COM card as eth1 when it's in the slot - so I can't configure
it.
But this does clear up why I could see both cards in hwconf. I thought the
configurator read from hwconf...
Thanks for your interest,
Julian
Land of Oz
Thank
Thanks for your help. I worked around it... I read dmesg, which says my eth1 Realtek is my eth0 and gave me the IRQ and hardware address. I stopped trying to configure eth1 as eth1 and configured it as eth0. It now works and I am using it now to do this, through my smoothwall firewall :) The Broadcom BCM4401 on-board NIC is in hwconf, but is not recognised by the redhat-config-network (email if you want more screenshots). I have had this problem with RH8 and posted a bug 91130 and suggest the two be amalgamated if that's feasible. Thanks again for your ideas. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91130 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |