kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 and eth0 passive

[tsorvoja]

I upgraded my FC2-kernel to 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 and in bootup eth0 won't activate. In previous kernel-update I had this problem with chipset detection (KT600 detected as CLE266). The original FC2 kernel which came with CD's works flawlessly (2.6.5.358 or something...).
Does somebody have similar problems??

My computer:
EPOX 8KRAI (VIA KT600 with integrated nic and soundcard)
AMD 2600+ XP (Barton)
512 DDR (400MHz)
Sapphire Radeon 9600
Maxtor 40GB IDE + 120GB SATA
19" Samtron 96P

[frontzeck]

Run

system-config-network

as root and check the option 'Activate on boot'.

[tsorvoja]

Manual activation doesn't work either. Linux tries to activate eth0 on boot, but something goes wrong.
When I try to activate eth0 manually, I get this message: "External network device eth0 is not ready. Aborting.."
Then I get a message from syslogd: "localhost kernel: disabling IRQ #10"
Help me?

[tsorvoja]

Here's the kernel startup-log:

Linux version 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 (bhcompile@tweety.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat tes/line)
...
...
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 20) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs 21) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs 23) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0b.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.1[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.1[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.2[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.3[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.4[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@oss.sgi.com cc hadi@cyberus.ca)
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1091773048.4294965380:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 86671F00334EFBCB
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
ksign: invalid packet (ctb=00)
Unable to load default keyring: error=74
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.0, from 5 to 10
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.1, from 5 to 10
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (31 C)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA KT400/KT400A/KT600 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.1[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xcc00-0xcc07, BIOS settings: hdaio, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xcc08-0xcc0f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
hda: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdb: CREATIVEDVD-ROM DVD2240E 03/18/98, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdd: Maxtor 34098H4, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdd: max request size: 128KiB
hdd: 80043264 sectors (40982 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdd: hdd1 hdd2 hdd3
hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1024kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 9362)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.02 loaded.
sata_via version 0.20
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): routed to hard irq line 11
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xB400 ctl 0xB802 bmdma 0xC400 irq 11
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xBC00 ctl 0xC002 bmdma 0xC408 irq 11
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003 88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 234375000 sectors:
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : sata_via
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi1 : sata_via
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0 Rev: YAR5
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 234375000 512-byte hdwr sectors (120000 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 0235d140(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.4[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller
irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[<02274941>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4b)
Disabling IRQ #10
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 10, pci mem 22879000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 10, io base 0000d000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.1[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 10, io base 0000d400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.2[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 11, io base 0000d800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.3[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 11, io base 0000dc00
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
EXT3 FS on hdd2, internal journal
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
Adding 1048312k swap on /dev/hdd3. Priority:-1 extents:1
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hdd1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

[tomwitmer]

Similar problem, different symptom. I have an Abit KT400 motherboard with a Via Rhine II built-in ethernet port. Works just fine in prior kernel version, FC1, Windows 98, etc.

Upgrading to kernel 2.6.7 triggers Kudzu to come up at boot and complains that the network device was removed, and then detects it again and attempts to reconfigure it, which fails. Manual resetting of network parameters, and removal and recreation of network device (through system-config-network) has same result.

boot.log has these messages:

Aug 5 22:13:02 whitebox network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
Aug 5 22:13:02 whitebox network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
Aug 5 22:13:05 whitebox acpid: acpid startup succeeded
Aug 5 22:13:02 whitebox ifup: via-rhine device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Aug 5 22:13:02 whitebox network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed

I haven't tried telling kudzu to "keep configuration" yet, but I'll try it now and post an update if that works.

[frontzeck]

tsorvoja,

did you try to compile a standard kernel (eg. 2.6.7) yourself? get it from kernel.org and try to build it yourself, perhaps something is wrong with the module for your nic...don't know anything better right now

[imdeemvp]

why dont you just try deleting old connection and create a new ONE

[tsorvoja]

I've been considering that seriously, Frontzeck. And imdeemvp, I've tried that. Doesn't work..

[Evert]

Is buying a new NIC......eg one with an RTL8139 Chipset an option???

I have got an edimax nic with an rtl8139 chipset. No problem at all..
Every kernel does support these nic's because the module 8139too will be loaded.

Evert

[tsorvoja]

I know that nic's are cheap today, but I prefer to use my existing nic.

[Ned]

TomW - I just checked the default config for the FC2 2.6.7 kernel source for you and the VIA rhine II network driver is compiled as a module by default along with nearly every other network driver. As it worked under FC1 I'd say this is an issue specific to this kernel

Ned

[tomwitmer]

Ned - Thanks for checking that. It's working today for some reason, and didn't bring up kudzu during boot up. I had tried deleting and recreating the network settings under both 2.6.6 and 2.6.7 kernels, which worked fine in 2.6.6, but failed in 2.6.7, even after a reboot.

Why it chose to start working this morning, I don't know. :-)

The new kernel seems much more responsive so far, which is nice.

[tsorvoja]

Weird I just realized that I can't run some applications with latest kernel (logged as root). Cannot run gedit, xmms, OpenOffice, nothing. Part of system utilies work, but not all. It seems that there's something really wrong with that kernel. I think I'm gonna compile latest kernel from kernel.org from scratch...

the latest kernerl does indeed seem to have a lot of bugs of misconfigurations i can barely even compile my own kernel using the new 2.6.7 kernel-sourcecode. maybe the developers need more testers so the normal users don't have to be the test subjects.

[Avix]

me three. SY-KT600 with the Rhine II. upgrade the kernal and good bye eth0

and I don't have a clue yet about how to compile a kernal, to buy trying to get everything else working