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Bug 55082

Summary: acenic driver on Kernel 2.4.9-6enterprise not loading on Netfinity 5500
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: TC <tcwan>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.1CC: shishz
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Description TC 2001-10-25 09:52:49 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Netfinity 5500 RH 7.1 install, upgraded to 2.4.9-6enterprise kernel
3Com 3C985 Gigabit Ethernet NICOn 2.4.3-12enterprise, acenic driver loads
without problems.
On 2.4.9-6enterprise, attempting to ifup the card will cause kernel to loop
complaining that the acenic firmware is not running. System becomes unusable.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot using 2.4.9-6enterprise on Netfinity 5500
2.ifup eth1 (acenic is eth1)
3.
	

Actual Results:  Kernel printk messages, complaining that firmware is not
running, and loops infintely trying to bring eth1 up.

Expected Results:  eth1 to be enabled correctly

Additional info:
Comment 1 TC 2001-10-25 09:53:58 UTC 
Created attachment 35022 [details]
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Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2001-10-25 11:01:26 UTC 
We've been investigating a similar report yesterday and found the cause late
last night; I'll make a new acenic driver available later today.
Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2001-10-25 16:16:51 UTC 
I've put the new sourcecode up on
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/rhl72/acenic

download the files, make sure the kernel-source package is installed and
type :
make
and then cp the resulting acenic.o to it's final place:
cp acenic.o /lib/modules/`uname -r/kernel/drivers/net
Comment 4 TC 2001-10-27 01:22:15 UTC 
Applying the patch fixes the Firmware loading problem. System currently running
on  Kernel 2.4.9-6enterprise + acenic patch with uptime of 20+ hours (to date).

Would there be a more automated fix to this short of manually applying the patch?
Comment 5 Arjan van de Ven 2001-11-03 17:57:34 UTC 
We released a kernel errata yesterday, which has this fix included.
Thanks for reporting the problem!