Description of problem: Reboot my system the tg3 network drivers fail to come up. The error messages are: Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth1: Device eth1 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring. [FAILED] Bringing up interface eth2: Device eth2 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring. [FAILED] Reboot the system a second time takes care of the problem Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel 2.6.9-34.22 How reproducible: 90% Steps to Reproduce: 1.reboot a system that uses tg3 network drivers 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Here is my module.conf file alias eth0 e100 alias eth1 tg3 alias eth2 tg3 alias scsi_hostadapter cciss alias usb-controller ohci-hcd options diskdump compress=1
What are the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*? It sounds like you are specifying a MAC address that doesn't match what is on the tg3 card(s)? You may want to include the output of dmesg as well...thanks!
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:D0:B7:5D:E3:02 ONBOOT=no TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=no PEERDNS=yes IPV6INIT=no DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:0B:CD:0E:92:0D ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=yes IPV6INIT=no DEVICE=eth2 BOOTPROTO=none HWADDR=00:0B:CD:0E:92:0C ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=yes IPV6INIT=no NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=10.0.0.5
Eth2 has a lower mac address than eth1. They probably should be the other way around. Did you load the system with acpi turned off or something? That could make them come up in reverse order.
Do you have a need to specify the HWADDR? If not, the easiest thing is probably to remove those lines from ifcfg-eth*...does doing that straighten things out?
Sorry for the delayed response on this... This got lost in the the sea of other bugzilla emails.. wrt to Comment #4, I rebooted with a new kernel... and kudzu ask if I wanted to remove a "network interface" . Mistakenly I said yes... but then kudzu asked if I wanted to install a network interface so I said yes... wrt to Comment #5, I'll try that...
Any word on results from comment 5?
I'm going to close this one as INSUFFICIENT_DATA in order to "clear the books"...if it continues to be a problem, please reopen...thanks!