upgrade 8.0 to core2 has broken P4 Xeon (S2721) gigabit ethernet

Ross Macintyre raz at macs.hw.ac.uk
Wed Aug 11 09:30:01 UTC 2004


Taylor, ForrestX said:
> On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 04:27, Ross Macintyre wrote:
>> I'm having problems with a server I have just upgraded from 8.0 to
>> Fedora Core2.
>> The networking stopped working though everything still looks ok.
>
> How did you get your gigabit ethernet working in RHL 8.0 originally?  I
> had to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel or use a separate driver--which did
> you do?

I must have had that kernel(or newer) on originally, cos the networking
worked no bother. Whatever I can't remember.

I have to thank you for suggesting running the GUI though cos this has let
me fix my problem. [I'd always just edited the file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 by hand before]
I hadn't realised that putting DEVICE=eth1 in the file ifcfg-eth0 was the
way to map eth0 to eth1.
This has got me going so a big thanks for your help.

Ross

>
>> The machine in question has a dual P4 Xeon (S2721) motherboard
>> which has 1 dual Gigabit ethernet and 1 single 100 Mg port.
>> Before I upgraded I had my ethernet connected to one of the Gigabit
>> ports. Since the upgrade all I can seem to do to get things working
>> is connect to the 100 Mg port and configure that as eth0.
>> This is ok for now but I want to get the Gigabit connection working
>> soon.
>> (Also, I at first tried to configure it as eth2, which is what I
>> thought it should be, but that just confused things, and really that
>> is another story! It seemed to want to slower port, when it was
>> connected, eth0)
>>
>> I have an identical machine running 8.0 still so I can compare
>> things. Here is the output of lsci:
>>
>> <698-54>brahma# lspci|grep ther
>> 01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro
>> 100] (rev 10)
>> 07:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet
>> Controller (rev 01)
>> 07:01.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet
>> Controller (rev 01)
>
> It looks like eth0 is the Intel EEPRO/100 and eth1/eth2 is the dual
> Intel Gigabit.  Do you have 'alias eth1 e1000' in /etc/modprobe.conf?
> If not, setup your card in the Network configuration GUI.
>
> Forrest
>
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