Kernel 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5: eth0 dead

[Jonathan Berry]

On 5/3/06, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:11:25PM -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
>  > On 5/3/06, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
>  > >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:58:54PM -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
>  > > > On 5/3/06, Richard Emberson <remberson at edgedynamics.com> wrote:
>  > > > >Just yummed kernel 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 for a
>  > > > >x86_64 dell box and the eth0 connection
>  > > > >stopped working. Going back to the previous
>  > > > >kernel is a workaround.
>  > > >
>  > > > I am seeing the same thing, networking will not start with kernel
>  > > > 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.  Running x86_64 FC5 on an AMD64  box with nForce4
>  > > > SLI chipset.  Reverting to an older kernel also solves the issue with
>  > > > me.
>  > >
>  > >Does booting with pci=nomsi fix this for you ?
>  >
>  > Thanks for the reply, Dave.
>  > Well, unfortunately, no it does not fix it.  When I try booting with
>  > "pci=nomsi" I get a message saying that PCI doesn't know the option.
>
> Sigh, more breakage.

Fun stuff :).

> Can you try 2108 from people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC5 instead ?
> That has it disabled by default.

I tried it but no difference.  RHGB didn't work trying it just as-is. 
Disabled that and quiet and it hung at trying to find an IP address
again.  I also tried giving it the pci=nomsi but it didn't understand
that either.  When undoing quite, I did notice some messages about MSI
capability.  What exactly is that (if you care to explain)?  Hmm, I
found the following messages in dmesg after booting 2096 (I think
these are the same in the other kernels).  Don't know if they are 
pertinant or not:

PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:0b.0:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:0b.0:pcie03]

This block is repeated with the 'b' in 0000:00:0b.0 being 'c', 'd',
and 'e'.  Let me know what else I can do.

Jonathan