Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119945
Writes wrong alias to modprobe.conf
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:43:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Epiphany/1.1.12 Description of problem: Installed FC2 Test 2 with a internal tulip network chip enabled, but as it doesn't work (a strange problem for some Compaq Presario 56xx computers) I decided I should insert a natsemi based network card. I halted the computer and inserted the new network card, and disabled the internal chip. Under the boot sequence I was asked to remove support for the tulip card which I did, but when using system-config-network to enable the natsemi based network card. I selected the Device tab and pressed New, I got information about adding a device for my DP83815 based network card. I then tried to Activate the new device, but it complained about problems initialize a tulip device. I tryed to remove the eth0 line from modprobe.conf, but it did not help. But when I changed the line in modpropbe.conf from: alias eth0 tulip to: alias eth0 natsemi I was able to Activate the device. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.3.16-1 How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
what does: # /usr/sbin/kudzu -p -c NETWORK print??
# /usr/sbin/kudzu -p -c NETWORK - class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth0 driver: natsemi desc: "National Semi|DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller" network.hwaddr: 00:02:E3:0A:35:52 vendorId: 100b deviceId: 0020 subVendorId: 1385 subDeviceId: f311 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 4 pcifn: 0 #
hmm, if you removed the card using kudzu, then kudzu should have removed the alias from modules.conf...
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