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Bug#370195: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686: fails to bring up an NE2000 network card



Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686
Version: 2.6.15-8
Severity: important


With this kernel I am not able to use the network. I had to go back to a
2.4 kernel to have the net working. As a comparison I attached some
fragments obtained with kernel 2.4 and with kernel 2.6:


The fragment of syslog in the case of a 2.4 kernel is:

Jun  4 01:28:33 localhost kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Jun  4 01:28:33 localhost kernel: isapnp: Card 'PLUG & PLAY ETHERNET CARD'
Jun  4 01:28:33 localhost kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Jun  4 01:28:33 localhost kernel: ne.c: ISAPnP reports Generic PNP at i/o 0x240,Jun  4 01:28:33 localhost kernel: ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@scyldJun  4 01:28:33 localhost kernel: Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul Gortmaker
Jun  4 01:28:33 localhost kernel: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x240: 00 00 b4 35 1Jun  4 01:28:33 localhost kernel: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x240, using IRQ 5.


Running the network restart I get:

pccasa:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart
* /etc/network/options is deprecated.
Setting up IP spoofing protection...done (rp_filter).
Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifup: interface lo already configured
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:00:b4:35:1f:e1
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:00:b4:35:1f:e1
Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.33 -- renewal in 129600 seconds.
done.



With a 2.6 kernel, I get the following syslog fragment:

Jun  4 02:18:28 localhost kernel: pnp: Device 01:01.00 activated.
Jun  4 02:18:28 localhost kernel: ne.c: ISAPnP reports Generic PNP at i/o 0x240, irq 5.
Jun  4 02:18:28 localhost kernel: ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
Jun  4 02:18:28 localhost kernel: Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul Gortmaker
Jun  4 02:18:28 localhost kernel: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x240: 00 00 b4 35 1f e1
Jun  4 02:18:28 localhost kernel: eth%%d: NE2000 found at 0x240, using IRQ 5.


which means that there is a problem with my NE2000 card, because it is
seen as an eth%%d interface rather than a eth0...
If I try to restart the network interface I get:

pccasa:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart
* /etc/network/options is deprecated.
Setting up IP spoofing protection...done (rp_filter).
Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifup: interface lo already configured
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Bind socket to interface: No such device
exiting.
Failed to bring up eth0.
done.


and my ifconfig -a says:

pccasa:~# ifconfig -a
eth35     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:B4:35:1F:E1
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x240

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
												    

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Locale: LANG=it_IT@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.60       tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools             3.2.2-2    tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 recommends:
ii  libc6-i686                    2.3.6-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

-- debconf information:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.15-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.15-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.15-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.15-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.15-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.15-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.15-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.15-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.15-1-686: false
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.15-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.15-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.15-1-686: false
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.15-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.15-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.15-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.15-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.15-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.15-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.15-1-686: true



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