Re: kernel update breaks network
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On 05/22/08 07:50, kj wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I just updated an Etch server to linux-image-2.6.18-6-k7 (from -5-) and
> after a reboot network won't come up. The network card is an Intel
> 100mbit, uses the e100 driver. The driver loads, but trying to bring
> eth0 up gives me a "does not exist" error.
>
> After much back and forth fiddling and replacing the card without any
> luck, I remembered this has happened before, and by accident I found out
> the previous time that the interface number has changed. So I checked.
> Sure as bob, it was now eth4...
>
> Why does this happen? I imagine there's some of caching of the MAC
> address going on, and I'm worried this might expire at some point.
Look in /etc/udev/persistent-net-generator.rules and the file it
generates, /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules.
> Another thing I noticed, while trying all sorts of things. I could not
> get the e100 driver to load with any options. I tried
> eeprom_bad_csum_allow=1 and debug=16 and it simply did not happen.
>
> This just adds to another problem I have with e100, on my workstation,
> where it sees only one of two identical cards, forcing me to use
> eepro100 for the second.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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