Re: anyone else having weird networking issues with the latest FC5 (2.6.17) kernel?

["Lonni J Friedman" <netllama gmail com>]

On 6/26/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10 charter net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:36 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > I'm seeing some bizarre networking problems with the latest FC5
> > kernel.  On one system, all of my ethernet interfaces have reversed
> > themselves.  eth2 is now eth0, eth0 is eth2.  If I boot back into the
> > last 2.6.16 based kernel, everything 'works' as expected again.
> >
> > On another system, where I'm using ndiswrapper-1.18 for a PCI wifi
> > NIC, it just doens't work at all in the 2.6.17 kernel.  I see tons of
> > messages in dmesg about wlan0 getting reset, and there's no throughput
> > at all (100% packet loss).  Falling back to the last 2.6.16 kernel
> > fixed that problem too.
> >
> This sounds like a resurfacing of an earlier problem where the new
> kernel and utilities changed the order in which devices were scanned on
> the mobo.  The names are assigned in the order they are seen by default,
> but IIRC there are workarounds that will force the system to always
> assign the same nic the same name.

do you happen to remember what that workaround was?

> I have not seen the nic problem and do not remember the details, but
> then I do not have multiple NICs, nor am I using ndiswrapper on my PC.
> When I was using ndiswrapper, IIRC it had to be recompiled for each
> kernel update.

Right, but that's not the problem i'm having.  The module was
recompiled, it loads fine, wlan0 comes up, i get 100% packet loss,
with loads of reset errors in dmesg.

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