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Bug 98832

Summary: kudzu breaks network card
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Alexander Larsson <alexl>
Component: kudzuAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 3.0CC: rvokal
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ifcfg-eth0
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ifcfg-lo
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Description Alexander Larsson 2003-07-09 12:15:54 UTC
Kudzu 1.1.9-1 breaks my 3Com 3c590 NIC if its loaded before the network is
initialized. If I boot in single-user mode, ifup eth0 and then switch to
runlevel 5 it works though. 

When the card is "broken", it doesn't send packets on the network, and doesn't
recieve *any* packets except locally sent packets and an occational packet with
bad crc.

This is independent of kernel. I tried the RH9 kernel, and it did the same thing.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-07-09 12:27:34 UTC
Can you post your modules.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*?

Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2003-07-09 12:33:25 UTC
Created attachment 92824 [details]
modules.conf

Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2003-07-09 12:33:44 UTC
Created attachment 92825 [details]
ifcfg-eth0

Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2003-07-09 12:33:59 UTC
Created attachment 92826 [details]
ifcfg-lo

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2003-07-09 12:41:57 UTC
Can you post your /etc/sysconfig/hwconf? In the case where it doesn't work, what
are the kernel messges from the driver, if any?

Comment 6 Alexander Larsson 2003-07-09 12:59:44 UTC
Created attachment 92827 [details]
hwconf

Comment 7 Alexander Larsson 2003-07-09 13:01:07 UTC
no driver messages

Comment 8 Bill Nottingham 2003-07-09 13:15:39 UTC
No driver messages at all? Not even on initialization?

Comment 9 Alexander Larsson 2003-07-09 13:40:48 UTC
Well. The normal initialization messages are there:
Jul  9 14:03:27 testbox kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
Jul  9 14:03:27 testbox kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Jul  9 14:03:27 testbox kernel: See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
Jul  9 14:03:27 testbox kernel: 00:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0xa400.
Vers LK1.1.18-ac
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel: 00:0b.0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT)
setting of 32, new value is 248.
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel:  00:20:af:f2:b7:18, IRQ 10
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel:   product code 4243 rev 00.0 date 08-22-95
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel:   32K byte-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split,
autoselect/10baseT interface.
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel: 00:0b.0: scatter/gather disabled. h/w checksums
disabled
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel: See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel: 00:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0xa400.
Vers LK1.1.18-ac
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel:  00:20:af:f2:b7:18, IRQ 10
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel:   product code 4243 rev 00.0 date 08-22-95
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel:   64K word-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split,
autoselect/10baseT interface.
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel: 00:0b.0: scatter/gather disabled. h/w checksums
disabled
Jul  9 14:03:28 testbox kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

Actually it seems that they are reported twice every time the NIC breaks... That
may be related.

Comment 10 Bill Nottingham 2003-07-09 19:17:59 UTC
Hm, I installed kudzu-1.1.9-1, and put a craptastic 3c990 10Mb card in my box.
It works fine with kudzu running.

Comment 11 Alexander Larsson 2003-07-09 19:45:56 UTC
strange...


Comment 12 Bill Nottingham 2003-07-31 04:15:46 UTC
I'm assuming this didn't spontaneously start working with newer kernels?

Comment 13 Alexander Larsson 2003-08-05 13:58:03 UTC
Nope. Just installed the latest tree and got the same thing. 

Comment 14 Bill Nottingham 2004-02-04 06:36:06 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107389 ***

Comment 15 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:56:59 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.