FC3 and 2 net interfaces :-(

[Avi Alkalay]

Havoc, I think this is 2 problems:

1) airo driver refuses to be eth1 dynamically, or the kernel should
manage to not let 2 drivers allocate the same "eth0".
2) kudzu is broken

I'm stable now probably with the same manual solution you guys did:
Edited by hand modprobe to make airo allways eth0. I'm not rebooting
too much, so I don't know what kudzu will do next time. I'll probably
disable it, cause I'm not planning to install a TV board in my laptop
:D

Do you have an IBM T40 too ?
If so, I have other minor issues with mine, like ACPI, etc, so we can
have a look on them in private, if you don't mind...

Regards,
Avi


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:28:38 -0500, Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the same network cards and had the same problem.
> 
> For me I finally fixed it by
> nuking /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, /etc/modprobe.conf, and rebooting
> (I think)
> 
> I also had to blow away the existing network-scripts/ifcfg-eth[01] I
> think.
> 
> Anyway, basically rebooting with all the old cruft removed seemed to fix
> it. It's still a bug, I'm just giving you a workaround. You might save
> the old cruft for bug report purposes.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:39 -0200, Avi Alkalay wrote:
> > Yeah, but I just spent 1 hour to put my IBM T40 laptop on the network.
> >
> > I have 2 interfaces: GigEthernet (e1000) and Cisco Wireless (airo).
> > airo wants to be ALLWAYS eth0, but if you load e1000 first, it will be
> > eth0. Then if you rmmod e1000 and then rmmod airo, your command line
> > hangs, and if you try to init 6 in another shell, it will hang in some
> > point, with kernel messages saying it is waiting for eth0 to bee
> > freed. Finally, you'll have to put your finger in the power button.
> >
> > Kudzu also has some (probably related) problems with network:
> > Every boot he has 2 messages for me:
> > a) AIRO was removed (it is an internal chip in my laptop !!!)
> > b) new AIRO was found. Duh....
> >
> > I reported this last bug in FC2, and it is marked as closed, :-(
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124805
> >
> > It seems this problem happens on any system that has 2 interfaces.
> > Anyone else with this on FC3 ?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Avi
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:47:32 +0100, Matthias Saou
> > <thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
> > wrote:
> > > Avi Alkalay wrote :
> > >
> > > > Why 'rpm -Uvh' or 'yum install' seems faster in FC3 ?
> > > > Why KDE is waaaaaay faster than FC2 ?
> > > > Why now my Cisco wireless works (after some tweeks) ?
> > > >
> > > > What was improved ?
> > >
> > > ...all the above... and more! :-)
> > >
> > > I've also had this kind of feedback from regular end-users : The general
> > > overall impression is "faster and snappier", which is really great news.
> > >
> > > As for the individual questions above, yum is a lot faster since it uses
> > > the new metadata format (no endless initial download of header files),
> > > python pickles... and has been more or less entirelay rewritten since 2.0.
> > > For rpm, maybe some not-so-needed internal checks have been disabled for
> > > normal operation? KDE... I couldn't say, I don't use it myself.
> > >
> > > Matthias
> >
> 
>