From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 Description of problem: Hello Before reporting to redhat bug report the problem was approached in detail in the redhat support area (see Service Request 224318). I was running redhat linux 6.1 to 7.3 on a Compaq en small pc-computer as monitor less server without any problem described as in the following. Since I upgraded to redhat linux 8.0 these days on reboot the ethernet interface eth0 is switched off at shutdown time but is not switched on again on boot time even in the boot message bringing up eth0 is reported as ok. There is no way to prevent linux 8.0 to shutdown completely the eth0 interface at shutdown -h and -r time. After a regular Linux shutdown the yellow LED for activation (green LED for traffic) on the eth0 RJ45 connector remains off until pulling out and replug-in the power cord of the pc. Switching on/off by the power switch has only a positive effect to eth0, if the computer had first pulled off the power cord and switching on/off occurs during self test e.g. the bios screen interval. Issuing during normal operation the command "ifdown eth0" and there after "ifup eth0" has the same effect; eth0 remains switched off. The same is true to a network restart -> "service network restart". Disabling the command ifdown in the shutdown operation sequence delays the eth0 switch off, but it occurs at all the same at the very end of the shutdown operation. In accordance with the suggestion of redhat support, I tried to apply different parameters to kernel command: I have tried first to apply the noapic parameter to the boot command as suggest from redhat support. It had no influence to the behavior of linux on boot time - apic was enabled by linux again and it has no influence at all to my problem with the shuted down eth0 interface. So I tried without success to apply all possible amp parameters (one on each test) to the boot command. Even I tried the same apm parameters in combination with turned on/off apm in the bios. I guess there is some change in redhat 8.0 since 7.3 concerning bringing down eth interfaces that interfere with the advanced power management on wake up LAN functionality of the compaq en small pc even if they are switched off in the bios. Many thanks in advance and best regards Andr� M�ller Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: - command reboot or shutdown -r or shutdown -h - or command "ifdown eth0" and there after "ifup eth0" - or command "service network restart" Actual Results: eth0 remains switched of after reboot Expected Results: eth0 is switched on or remains switched on after a reboot Additional info:
Created attachment 89319 [details] dmesg log
it seems you're using the eepro100 driver. There is also an alternate driver for the same hardware, called e100. Both drivers work for most people, but for some people eepro100 works better, while for other e100 works better. Could you try the e100 driver? You can change driver by editing the /etc/modules.conf file and replacing "eepro100" with "e100".
Hello Many thanks for your prompt response! Your suggestion changed quite alot the behavior but did not resolve the problem, a new one was created: - I did the change in /etc/modules.conf file from eepro100 to e100 and shutdown the system and switched of the power and pulled out the power cord. Step 1: - switched on the pc (yellow LED on eth0 is on) - booted the system (yellow LED on eth0 is on) - dmesg gives the following statment fragment: - eth0 is working PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:14.2 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 e100: eth0: Compaq Fast Ethernet Server Adapter Mem:0x42000000 IRQ:11 Speed:100 Mbps Dx:Half Step 2: - rebooting with the command "shutdown -r "now" - eth0 is not switched off (yellow LED on eth0 remains on) - on boot time eth0 is not recognized see dmesg fragemtn bellow (yellow LED on eth0 is on): - eth0 does not work (yellow LED on eth0 remains on) PCI: Enabling device 00:0a.0 (0000 -> 0003) PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:14.2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:0a.0 to 64 e100: selftest failed e100: Failed to initialize, instance #0 Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver -version 2.1.6.-k1 Copyrigth (c) 2002 Intel Corporation - issued the command "ifup eth0" and received the same messages lines as in the dmesg fragment above. - issued the cammand "service network restart" and received same messages lines as in the dmesg fragment above. Step 3. - rebooted system by command "shutdown -r "now" (yellow LED on eth0 remains on) - system goes down correctly (yellow LED on eth0 remains on) - ->> new problem : system hangs infinitely after the prompt "Restarting system"! (yellow LED on eth0 remains on) ---- I have reproduced this new "behavior" for test three times and also two times by removing the kernel parameter amp=power_off in the /etc/grub.conf restarting on Step 1. So step 1 to 3 can always be reproduced. Many thanks in advance and with best regards, André Müller
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/