Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 143807
no network on startup with tg3 (kernel-2.4.21) - ibm hs20 blade
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:05 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: after you reboot the server(rh es9 with kernel-2.4.21) you don't get a connection to the network. kernel: tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=4000 enable_bit=2 you have to: ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 an your connection in up. with kernel 2.4.21-20.EL everythink works fine. thanx! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.i686.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. after update and reboot Additional info:
I have the same problem with IBM HS40 and HS20 blades running RHEL2.1/U6 (kernel-2.4.9-e.59): No network connection after reboot, but ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0 and network link is up. Reproducible: Always.
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