linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors

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Date:	Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:47:00 -0800
From:	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...gle.com>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steve Fox <drfickle@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc3/2.6.19-rc3-mm1/
>>
>> - ia64 doesn't compile due to improvements in acpi.  I already fixed a huge
>>   string of build errors due to this and it's someone else's turn.
>>
>> - For some reason Greg has resurrected the patches which detect whether
>>   you're using old versions of udev and if so, punish you for it.
>>
>>   If weird stuff happens, try upgrading udev.
> 
> I have four machines showing problems with 2.6.19-rc3-mm1.  In each case
> they appear to have lost their ethernet cards completely.  I have a
> ppc64 using ibm_veth, two ppc64's using e1000's and an x86_64 using a
> Tigon 3.
> 
> Before I had results from the non e1000 machines I did try backing out
> all e1000 patches to no effect.  I also had a quick scan of the
> changelogs for net/ and nothing jumped out at me.
> 
> Any suggestions what to hack out next?

At least on one machine with 8 tg3 cards, it finds all its interfaces,
but then drops into:



Setting up network interfaces:
      lo
     lo        IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
7[?25l[1A[80C[10D[1;32mdone[m8[?25h    eth0
               No configuration found for eth0
7[?25l[1A[80C[10D[1munused[m8[?25h    eth1
             No configuration found for eth1

for all 8 cards.
(


Other ones just do this:


          .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 
  .  .  .7[?25l[80C[10D[1;32mdone[m8[?25h
[m[?25hSetting up network interfaces:
e1000: 0000:c8:01.0: e1000_probe: (PCI-X:133MHz:64-bit) 00:09:6b:6e:80:42
     lo
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
     lo        IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
7[?25l[1A[80C[10D[1;32mdone[m8[?25hWaiting for mandatory devices: 
eth-id-00:09:6b:6e:80:42
19 e1000: 0000:c8:01.1: e1000_probe: (PCI-X:133MHz:64-bit) 00:09:6b:6e:80:43
e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
     eth-id-00:09:6b:6e:80:42            No interface found

(http://test.kernel.org/abat/59143/debug/console.log)

Sorry about the jibberish logs. Seems like SLES takes it upon itself
to spew random "enhanced" shit on bootup.

M.
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