Bug 872477 - No eth0 after boot with r8169 module
Summary: No eth0 after boot with r8169 module
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-02 07:04 UTC by Jan ONDREJ
Modified: 2013-03-12 19:43 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-03-12 19:43:58 UTC
Type: Bug
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dmesg output (74.78 KB, text/plain)
2012-11-02 07:06 UTC, Jan ONDREJ
no flags Details

Description Jan ONDREJ 2012-11-02 07:04:54 UTC
Description of problem:
After boot of latest unstable kernel there is no network card (eth0). After manual rmmod/modprobe of r8169 module network starts again and works well.
Tested multiple reboots, rerun of "dracut -f" and still same problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.6.5-1.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ifconfig eth0
  
Actual results:
[root@work ~]# ifconfig eth0
eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Expected results:
[root@work ~]# ifconfig eth0
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
...

Additional info:
[root@work ~]# ifconfig eth0
eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
[root@work ~]# rmmod r8169
[root@work ~]# modprobe r8169
[root@work ~]# ifconfig eth0
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
...

Latest fully functional kernel for me was 3.5.2. In other 3.5 kernels there was unable to start qemu-kvm (reportoed in BZ). All 3.6 kernels are hanging after some time. Unable to describe, how to reproduce, so this was not reported yet.

Comment 1 Jan ONDREJ 2012-11-02 07:06:45 UTC
Created attachment 636965 [details]
dmesg output

Here is my dmesg. In 284th second my modules was reloaded as described in report.

Comment 2 Jan ONDREJ 2012-11-15 09:06:42 UTC
Same problem on 3.6.6 kernel. I don't use NetworkManager, may be users with NetworkManager are not affected.

Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2013-03-12 18:59:22 UTC
Are you still seeing this with 3.7.9 or 3.8.2 in updates-testing?

Comment 4 Jan ONDREJ 2013-03-12 19:41:32 UTC
I have a new motherboard with external PCIe card with same chipset without problems. I can't test it on my old motherboard. You can close this bug.

Comment 5 Josh Boyer 2013-03-12 19:43:58 UTC
OK, thanks for the response.


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