From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: I have a cable modem and one ethernet card. Since I need to distribute network for my home I have been using cdcether for network through the cable modem's USB interface. It's been running okay from Red Hat 9 through FC1. Now cdcether.ko loads, but as I try lifting up the interface: ifup eth1 the machine freezes completely: caps and num lock, for instance, don't even lit on the keyboard. I tried this with another computer that has a different usb controller and the result is the same, so that is why I think that cdcether is broken. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.5-1.358 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: plugging usb interface loads cdcether module ifup eth1 Actual Results: crash Expected Results: eth1 with a DHCP provided address and machine working fine :) Additional info: Please tell me what more should I give you, the dmesg until just before ifup? I will add it later on.
If you do this with a text mode console do you get an oops trace ?
Hi. No. Total freeze. Only on boot did I get a trace... It took me some time to find out what it was since the trace dragged up all normal Init lines upper than what I could see.
could you try usbnet instead of cdcether?
Needinfoing - yes, users should try usbnet first.
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