I know this is Cambridge++ I'm running rawhide on my laptop. eth0 is: 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller eth1 is a cardbus wireless adapter (orinoco_cs driver) When I run rawhide with the 2.6-test5 kernel, kudzu at bootup states that my NatSemi MacPhyter network card has been removed from the system and offers to remove the configuration. When I agree, it removes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 (not ifcfg-eth0, which actually is the NatSemi card) When I boot up a second time, kudzu again states that my NatSemi MacPhyter network card has been removed and offers to remove its config. When I agree, it then removes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Two problems here. The first is that it's detecting the card as being removed when its very obviously still there (it's integrated), though that I might expect since device enumeration often changes between kernels and such. The second is that when it removes the config for that card, it removes the wrong config file.
What's the output of kudzu -p -c network under both 2.4 and 2.6?
Also, do both drivers support ethtool?
On 2.4, it's: [kaboom@skuld kaboom]$ sudo kudzu -p -c network - class: NETWORK bus: PCMCIA detached: 0 device: eth0 driver: orinoco_cs desc: "Linksys Instant Wireless Network PC Card WPC11 v3" vendorId: 0274 deviceId: 1613 function: 0 slot: 0 - class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth0 driver: natsemi desc: "National Semi|DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller" network.hwaddr: 00:0B:CD:E9:0E:A5 vendorId: 100b deviceId: 0020 subVendorId: 103c subDeviceId: 0024 pciType: 1 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 12 pcifn: 0 [kaboom@skuld kaboom]$ ethtool works with the wired (natsemi -- eth0) interface. It doesn't seem to do much with the wireless (orinoco_cs -- eth1) interface, but I don't know that it should?
Please try the kudzu-1.1.36.1-1 packages at: http://people.redhat.com/notting/kudzu/ These may resolve some of your issues.
I no longer have that laptop, so if it's something specific to that specific integrated NIC I can't test it any more. My current laptop has: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02) for the built-in ethernet, and still using the linksys (orinoco_cs) wireless since the built-in wireless doesn't work with linux
This should be fixed in current kudzu; the network detection stuff has undergone quite a few fixes.