Description of problem: Installing over NFS via boot.iso on a Dell Inspiron 3500 with a Xircom CE3B network card adapter fails to get past the DHCP screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Tried from rawhide-20040226 tree. anaconda-9.91-0.20040225180009 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot boot.iso 2. Try to install over NFS Actual results: Clicking OK on the DHCP screen (with 'use DHCP' on) does not move on to the next screen. On VT3: * need to set up networking * going to pick interface * only have one network device: eth * going to do getNetConfig * waiting for link... * 0 seconds. * pump told us: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device On VT4: <6>Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI <6>Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0098, PCI irq 11 <6>Socket status: 30000006 <6>Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:04.1 [1028:008f] <6>Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI <6>Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI <6>Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0098, PCI irq 11 <6>Socket status: 30000010 <6>cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. <6>cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x320-0x327 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7 <6>cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. <6>cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. <7>divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 <6>eth0: Xircom: port 0x300, irq 3, hwaddr 00:80:C7:A4:42:72
The 'simple' way to fix this is to get ethtool GDRVINFO support into that driver. (xirc2ps_cs?)
Yes, xirc2ps_cs is the driver in use.
Created attachment 98155 [details] linux-gdrvinfo.patch Here is a patch I'm testing, based on the corresponding code in the 2.4 tree.
Yes, this one-line patch fixes it.
fixed for some time now..