Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 101605
[NET] intel 82557/8/9 driver "e100" should be "eepro100"
Last modified: 2013-07-02 22:13:41 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 Description of problem: kudzu: local installation works. the nic will be recognized while installation all settings, ifconfig, ... are ok but the network is not reachable tcpdump - nothing goes out only comes in booting with acpi=off acpi=nopci will not help. on the chip i can read "S82557" # kudzu -p # vi /etc/sysconfig/hwconf - class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth0 driver: e100 desc: "Intel Corp.|82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100]" network.hwaddr: 00:A0:C9:1D:F7:89 vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 1229 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 - the following fixed the problem. # ifconfig eth0 down # rmmod e100 # modprobe eepro100 # ifconfig eth0 # ping www.google.de --> network is reachable # modinfo eepro100 this output looks much better than # modinfo e100 replace in /etc/modules.conf e100 with eepro100 ---- # alias eth0 e100 alias eth0 eepro100 ---- # service network restart Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kudzu-1.1.13-1.1 kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install severn1, nic = intel "S82557" 1995 2. configure network while installation 3. try to reach the network 4. check all setting, modules, firewall, ... :-( Actual Results: all seems to be ok but the network is unreachable Expected Results: network should be reachable after local installation and while network-installation Additional info: anaconda: net-inst via bootdisk fails because there is a link but nothing seems to go out only come in (tcpdump) choosing manually eepro100 -> but e100 will be loaded [alt][F3] (with rhl 9 bootdisks network is reachable)
Created attachment 93374 [details] acpidmp.txt
Created attachment 93375 [details] dmidecode.txt
Created attachment 93376 [details] lspci-vv.txt
It's a bug in the e100 driver if it doesn't work
Added Scott Feldman to the CC so that he can investigate the bug
Fixed in driver version 2.3.18. This new driver version has already been accepted into the tip-of-tree 2.6.x and 2.4.x kernels. The change log from version 2.3.13 is: o Bug fix: read skb->len after freeing skb [Andrew Morton] akpm@zip.com.au o Bug fix: 82557 (with National PHY) timeout during init [Adam Kropelin] akropel1@rochester.rr.com o Feature add: allow to change Wake On LAN when EEPROM disabled The second change is the inportant one. Also, while you're at it, the e1000 driver could stand to be updated to the latest version, 5.1.13. This has also been accepted into the latest 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. The change log for e1000 is: o Bug fix: request_irq() failure resulted in freeing resources twice! [Don Fry (brazilnut@us.ibm.com)] o Bug fix: fix VLAN support on ppc64 [Mark Rakes (mrakes@vivato.net)] o Bug fix: missing Tx cleanup opportunities during interrupt handling. o Bug fix: alloc_etherdev failure didn't cleanup regions in probe. o Cleanup: s/int/unsigned int/ for descriptor ring indexes.
Created attachment 93737 [details] The fix Applying this to RHEL 3.0 B1 after the fix for #97908 should be fine. Otherwise, manual application of patch may be needed.