Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 125015
xirc2ps_cs Fedora Core 2 unable to activate Xircom network card
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:43 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: Unable to activate and use Xircom PCMCIA ethernet card Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system 2. Device eth0 is detected, but fails at startup 3. Try to activate eth0 from redhat-network utility. This fails. Actual Results: 2. Start up messages: localhost ifup: interface "eth0" not found localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed 3. Network Activation message: Activation failed Expected Results: The device eth0 is detected and activates and connects to the ethernet network Card also known as Xircom CE3-10/100 Fast Ethernet Additional info:
device eth0 is detected? how do you know? what does: # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 output? what is in /etc/modprobe.conf?
1. device eth0 is detected? how do you know? 1. As I have written in "Actual Results" in my original bug report. From "System Logs" localhost ifup: interface "eth0" not found localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed ALSO in same log localhost ifup: xirc2ps_cs device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialisation 2. what does: # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 output? 2. eth0: error fetching interface information:Device not found 3. what is in /etc/modprobe.conf? 3. alias eth0 xirc2ps_cs alias snd-card .. install snd-cs ... remove snd-cs46xx .. robe -r ... alias usb-controller uhci-hcd ALSO 4. The NIC hardware works when Win XP is booted on the same machine
This happened to me after I carried out an update. However I have several different pc cards to chose from, and it appears that it may be the pcmcia drivers that may be at fault. Not the drivers for the cards but the actual PCMCIA device itself. All cards failed to be recognised after the update. The PCMCIA chip in use on my laptop is Ricoh based if that helps.
Yes, I "feel" this is something to do with the order that Fedora tries to activate PCMCIA AFTER Attempted network start. This feeling is a bit difficult to justify because I don't understand the details in the logs but .. 1. cardctl seems to suggest there are no PCMCIA cards in the laptop 2. Occassionally I can manually re-detect the hardware to "add" the PCMCIA cards then rerun network activation manualy 3. I saw somewhere a posting that indicated a change to a config file that RE-Starts network AFTER PCMCIA. Maybe something in this area? I don't understand this well enough to perform a systematic analysis
After completing Fedora's Core 2 installation the system displays a message "detecting new hardware" and right after that says something like " Xircom XXX Ethernet detected - will remove configuration". Even if you click on "keep configuration" It will not work. I've noticed that the Plug and Play abilities of RH Linux 9 are missing in Fedora - I use to plug and unplug PCMCIA devices while RHL 9 and it would detect them. This is not happening in Fedora C 2
This was fixed for me by the work-around in Bug Report ************** COPY FOLLOWS ***************** dditional Comment #5 From Penelope Fudd on 2004-05-21 03:52 ------- And for the final coup-de-grace, getting the boot process to print no errors (like orinoco_cs not found, delaying initialization): Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and set 'ONBOOT=no'. Eth0 still comes up when pcmcia comes up, a little later. The line I changed in /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia is 95: #if ! grep -q pcmcia /proc/devices ; then if ! cardctl status 2>&1 > /dev/null ; then *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123457 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.