From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) Description of problem: On an Australian spec Compaq Deskpro 486, the onboard PCnet/PCI ethernet device fails to initialise correctly. I'm not sure whether it's the device or the PCI bus on this early PCI system. In dmesg, I see the following PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:00.0 for regions 0 to 5. The output of the PCnet/PCI driver modules is: eth0: PCnet/PCI 79c970 at 0x1000, warning: PROM address does not match CSB address 00 00 00 00 00 00 pcnet32: pcnet_32_private lp=c1d71000 lp_dma_addr=0x1d71000 pcnet32.c:v1.25kf 26.9.1999 tsbogend.de Any attempt to bind the device to an IP results in an Operation failed error. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install a clean copy of Red Hat Linux 7.1 2. Boot the PCI :) 3. Actual Results: Ethernet card fails to initialise/load/bind/whatever. Expected Results: I should be able to bind an IP to the ethernet device. As it is /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start fails. Additional info:
This is fixed in kernels 2.4.3-7 and later, should be available in rawhide.... If such a kernel doesn't fix it for you, please reopen this bug.