From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: I have been using kernels 2.6.1-1.65 to 2.6.3-1.118 and up2date'd to 2.6.3-2.1.242. After that there is a failure during boot related to ethx. There is one nic on the machine, yet it seems like 2.6.3-2.1.242 tries to initialize two, eth0 and eth1. Network does not work afterwards. NIC: 3com 3c905c-tx/tx-m Relevant entries from boot.log: Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: cannot change name of eth1 to eth0: File exists Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: cannot parse MAC `2' at argument 2 Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: interface 'eth0' not found Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: cannot parse MAC `2' at argument 2 Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: cannot change name of eth1 to eth0: File exists Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: Device eth0 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring. Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora ifup: Mar 8 13:52:45 fedora network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot my machine 2. 3. Additional info: Going back to kernel 2.6.3-1.118 restores network
you need newer modutils...
OK, new modutils did it. Thanks.