Bug 116489 – Network card is disabled during bootup in a HP DL380

Bug 116489 - Network card is disabled during bootup in a HP DL380

Summary:	Network card is disabled during bootup in a HP DL380

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kudzu (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	2004-02-21 13:05 EST by David J Craigon
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:42 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-02-23 10:23:51 EST
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Description David J Craigon 2004-02-21 13:05:13 EST

We've got a Compaq DL380, running RHEL 3.0 fully updated. We use
runlevel 3.

Although this computer has two network cards, we have are only using
network card 1 (eth0). When we boot it, the computer does not pick up
an IP address. However, once booted, you can successfully ifup eth0.

I have tracked this down to to the following. During bootup, the
network card is available until kudzu is run in rc3.d. After S05kudzu,
the network card disappears! ifconfig etc. show no knowledge of its
existence.

After S10network, the network card cannot pick up an IP address
because eth0 doesn't exist! However a few seconds after running
S10network, it reappears. Thus we can then start networking manually
using ifup.

This behaviour is also exhibited in Fedora Core 1. It also occurs if
you abandon all scripts from runlevel 3 (by choosing interactive
startup, and choosing no to all options), then running kudzu by hand.

Subsequent runnings of kudzu do not disable networking.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-02-22 00:49:00 EST

What sort of network card?

Comment 2 David J Craigon 2004-02-22 10:44:01 EST

This is a stock DL380G3, which according to the HP website 
(http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantdl380/index.html) 
has 2 NC7781 10/100/1000 NICs. Both NICs display the same behaviour 
as in this bug.

I'll try and find out what driver this card uses.

Comment 3 David J Craigon 2004-02-23 04:53:55 EST

A quick correction- before Kudzu, the network card does not exist either.

Kudzu does disable it somehow though- the network light on the front
of the computer goes out.

Comment 4 David J Craigon 2004-02-23 10:23:51 EST

Turns out this bug has nothing to do with Kudzu whatsoever (sorry for
wasting your time)

Instead see bug #116586.

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