Description of problem: Sunhme does not work under RHEL5 kernel. I have a second hand Sun quad ethernet card in my home server. It used to work before under RHEL 4 (to be honest, I used Centos 4). It no longer works under Centos 5. The latest kernel I tried was: kernel-2.6.18-36.el5.jwltest.41. When I replace the standard kernel with a Fedora 6 kernel (2.6.22.2-42.fc6), all is fine again Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.18-36.el5.jwltest.41 or kernel-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot kernel 2. 3. Actual results: No network connection, logfile shows: Aug 24 20:32:20 nest kernel: eth1: transmit timed out, resetting Aug 24 20:32:20 nest kernel: eth1: Happy Status 03010000 TX[000003ff:00000301] Similar results are obtained for each interface used Expected results: working network connection Additional info:
Created attachment 193811 [details] jwltest-sunhme-fixes.patch
Test kernels w/ the above patch available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/ Do these resolve the issue for you?
hello John, Yes, the kernel 2.6.18-47.el5.jwltest.42 does solve the problem. Thanks!
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in 2.6.18-61.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
2.6.18-61.el5 fails to read the options rom on the card (errormsg: failed to allocat mem resouorce, once for each of the 4 chips). But as the kernel crashes with an oops later in the boot process, I have not been able to debug further (macaddr option probably would serve as work around). Will try again later. 2.6.18-53.el5 with the patch provided in this entry however works well
I am now running 2.6.18-75.el5xen. Solves the issues with the sun nic. Thanks!
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html