From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: Fedora Core 2 Dell Inspiron 1100 using stock kernel from ISO's and latest kernel (2.6.6-1.435.2.3) The hardware is properly detected, but whenever the network subsystem is started I get this error message: Shutting down loopback interface: [OK] Setting network parameters: [OK] Bringing up loopback interface: [OK] Bringing up interface eth0: interface 'eth0' not found b44.ko device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. [FAILED] It works fine when using the broadcom driver (v3.0.7) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.5-1.358, kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure modprobe.conf to use b44.ko instead of bcm4400.ko 2.Boot using b44.ko Additional info:
Hiya, could you tell me what lspci -vvn says. Also dmesg of what happens when you try modprobe b44 would be useful.
I am having the same problem on my new dell d800 laptop. It has the bcm5700 nic and says device eth0 does not seem to be present. I have the latest kernel as above. Please tell me the easiest way to get it to work. thanks
sorry, i forgot to mention that mine is using the tg3 driver.
..... so it's an entirely different laptop AND an entirely different network chip... sounds you're better of with an entirely different (new) bug ;)
Created attachment 101741 [details] Output of lspci
lspci output attached. dmesg from boot: b44.c:v0.94 (May 4, 2004) divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0b:db:1c:6f:52 divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_conntrack version 2.1 (3059 buckets, 24472 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack After boot, b44 doesn't show up in a lsmod, so I tried manually doing a modprobe b44 and the network came up fine. Here's dmesg after the manual modprobe: b44.c:v0.94 (May 4, 2004) divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0b:db:1c:6f:52 b44: eth0: Link is down. b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. b44: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX. eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Colin, how much RAM does your computer have?
The computer has 384 Mb of RAM. In any case, the problem has gone away. I no longer need to manually modprobe the file to get it to work. As soon as I set up the network configuration using the system-config-network tool it started working just fine. Unless the developers would like me to try some more things, I'd like to suggest that the ticket be closed.