Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 180426
Doesn't see VIA Rhine onboard NIC
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:23 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Description of problem: After upgrading to 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 the system no longer sees my onboard VIA Rhine ethernet adaptor, coming back with an error something like "adaptor doesn't seem to be present". If I boot back to the 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 kernel the adaptor is detected and works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot machine Actual Results: network adaptor not found Expected Results: network adaptor found Additional info:
*** Bug 180427 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There aren't any changes between those kernel versions that would cause the adapter to not be recognized. Could this be related to bug 179891? Please try the test kernels here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc4/ Does that work any better for you?
Appears that it may be related to the other bug as you suspect. Installed kernel-2.6.15-1.1832_fc4.jwltest31.i686.rpm and card detected fine.
Update, problem still present in kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4
Update, problem still present in kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4
I am having this issue with the latest 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 kernel and a VT6105M Rhine-III onboard NIC, but unlike the others, the NIC works fine with 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4. With the 2069 kernel, the system reports that the NIC seems to not be present as indicated by others.
I posted a patch upstream today that should resolve the issue, once it filter down into Fedora. It is equivalent to the patch from bug 179891.