From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: During boot, when network is being started, I get the message: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory and the interface fails to come up. When booted, doing ifup on the interface succeeds without problem The device is: 02:04.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.53-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC2 2. Boot it Actual Results: The interface does not come up, giving the error in the description, indicating that the firmware could not be loaded. /var/log/messages contains: Jun 24 11:44:17 localhost kernel: eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890') Jun 24 11:44:17 localhost kernel: prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890' Expected Results: Firmware should load, interface should come up. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112824 ***
Please change this bug so that it is no longer a duplicate of bug 112824. These are *not* the same problem, and this issue is *not* resolved by the fix for bug 112824. I have an x86_64 system with a PCI prism54 device running FC2 on which I have installed initscripts-7.80-1 and mkinitrd-4.1.11-1 from FC3 test2 and the behavior is unchanged. Specifically, the network card cannot start at boot because without hotplug support firmware cannot be loaded. Using ifup later brings it up with no problems and can be used as a work around. Still, this should be fixed because in many cases it is quite cumbersome. For example, I run DNS and DHCP (the machine is essentially an 802.11g access point) so these services must be restarted as well.
Did you *only* install the initscripts and mkinitrd from FC3 test?
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.