From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Using Dell Inspiron 5000e with a Xircom_tulip_cb and when installing it does not load this module. When trying to load it after installing the module does not work... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Reinstalled Fisher with the same result. Actual Results: eth0 doesn't work Expected Results: eth0 does work cant produce this due to the fact that I cant connect to network from within Fisher...
Errormessage when booting: symbol for parameter reverse_probe not found
Changing component to anaconda
We (Red Hat) should really fix this before the next release.
It's not really anacondas fault though, after looking around I've found that it's really a kernel related problem. When switching to 2.4.0 tulip_cb has been renamed to xircom_tulip_cb and probably got extended functionality. This gets the same if I deinstall networking and reinstall it manually. But the module isn't listed in linuxconf either.. tulip is but not xircom_tulip_cb. I'm keeping fisher installed if you need additional info.
What kind of pcmcia card do you have? Can you run 'cardctl ident'?
cardctl ident gives me: "Xircom", "Cardbus Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56", "CBEM56G", "1.03"
Are you sure we don't try and install this module? What module is pcmcia looking for? Does /etc/pcmcia/config look right for this card?
Yes, you install it, but it doesn't work... It, as I've stated earlier, tries to enable the module when booting but exits with: "symbol for parameter reverse_probe not found" Will return with /etc/pcmcia/config look after reboot.. ;)
When I booted to look in /etc/pcmcia/config I also tried running netconf and stripping the eth0 section of it down to only DHCP and module xircom_tulip_cb I then restarted network and tried the solution to another bug 'ifconfig eth0 arp' and see and behold, I'm online using fisher... However, this is not a working solution for newbies to the system. So even if the bug is "solved" it really isn't because a user needs to hack around to much to get it working.
xircom tulip is just hosed
When 2.4.2-0.1.16 or later shows up in rawhide, please try it. It fixes all our known xircom cardbus problems.