From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Description of problem: Motherboard has two network interfaces on board. Both will NOT enable with this kernel. Not able to manually turn on either. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot to latest kernel 2.network interface cards are turned off 3. Actual Results: Not able to get to the internet or my own network. Interface cards are disabled. Not able to turn on via network setup. Expected Results: Should have been able to get to internet and internal network. Additional info: Error message - Network not accessible. Hardware: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 2079.583 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up ts bogomips : 4161.06 clflush size : 32 class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth0 driver: 3c59x desc: "3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller [Tornado]" network.hwaddr: 00:26:54:0c:51:a1 vendorId: 10b7 deviceId: 9201 subVendorId: 1043 subDeviceId: 80ab pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 2 pcidev: 1 pcifn: 0 - class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth1 driver: forcedeth desc: "nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller" network.hwaddr: 00:0c:6e:32:68:4e vendorId: 10de deviceId: 0066 subVendorId: 1043 subDeviceId: 80a7 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 4 pcifn: 0 -
There were a ton of network changes done in the build after yours. Could you try the kernel from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=42024 and see how that goes?
if it still fails, can you attach the dmesg from the failing kernel please.
Same problem here with same hardware by the looks of it. I will attach some details and give referenced kernel a try.
Created attachment 297309 [details] lspci and ifconfig of configuration under working kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8
Created attachment 297310 [details] dmesg of kernel 2.6.24.3-22.fc8 Kernel 2.6.24.3-22.fc8.i686 from link in Comment #1 does not help. Attached is dmesg output while booting that kernel.
Created attachment 297311 [details] dmesg of working kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 Attached is the dmesg of the working kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 for reference.
Created attachment 297318 [details] dmesg_mziemer-22 From kernel 2.6.24-22.fc8.i686
Do the addresses in the original /etc/sysconfig/network/devices/* match the ones in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules?
From the working kernel boot messages; net eth1: device_rename: sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17) udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 It looks like the rename of the 3com 3c920 device wasn't working in 2.6.23 and now it is.
A few months ago the other network card on this board started forgetting int MAC and that was causing the ethx device to just start incrementing on every reboot so I caught it at eth50-ish and disabled it and used the one that appeared to be working. I thought (with some queries to the mailing list) that it was a hardware failure at the time. I will re-enable it and go back and try to start from square one with my network set up to see if everything is back to normal as this might be related. I'll let you know what progress I have.
Cleared out the ethx.bak cruft in system-config-network and I reenabled the other ethernet card in my bios so that it shows up. Now things seem to be working fine. There still appears to be some persistent cruft showing up in system-config-network eventhough I delete it and save after. I will have to go into the /etc/ directory with a weed-wacker. See attached dmesg and screenshots of s-c-n.
Created attachment 297760 [details] dmesg of kernel 2.6.24.3-22.fc8 after 2nd network card enable and cruft removal
Created attachment 297761 [details] Screenshot of network device cruft
Created attachment 297763 [details] Screenshot of network hardware cruft
*** Bug 437698 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
kernel-2.6.24.3-50.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
kernel-2.6.24.3-50.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2630
The new kernel -50 did not fix the problem.
kernel-2.6.24.3-50.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
With an IBM thinkpad X30 (which works with kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 but no 2.6.24 version yet) kernel 2.6.24.3-50.fc8 still prevents the e100 ethernet card (and the soundcard) from working. I'll attach a dmesg output with debug on the command line
Created attachment 299389 [details] dmesg output for failing kernel I don't think the IRQ 5 traceback in this dmesg is relevant -- I sometimes get the "nobody cared" message for IRQ 5 even with 2.6.23.15-137.fc8
Created attachment 301393 [details] Network Config showing continually incrementing device name on unused card While networking is working for me now after manually clearing all my old network devices out and letting Fedora reestablish them, clearly there is something still going on. I believe that this latest fix may correct one bug but there are more issues with this network driver on this mobo. The problems for me started about a week or two before 2007-11-19 so I turned one NIC off in the BIOS and ignored the issue. I reenabled it recently to see if things were better. They are not as seen by the continual marching up of the device name every reboot.
Created attachment 301394 [details] A screenshot of a strange duplicate NIC showing up in my hardware list