New: Yum update of Kernel broke sis900 ethernet driver
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Quoted 29 lines · On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:36:55 -0800 (PST) [email protected] wrote:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10201
Summary: Yum update of Kernel broke sis900 ethernet driver Product: Drivers Version: 2.5 KernelVersion: 2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Tree: Mainline Status: NEW Severity: blocking Priority: P1 Component: Network AssignedTo: [email protected] ReportedBy: [email protected]Latest working kernel version: 2.6.23.15-137.fc8.i686 Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686 Distribution: Fedora Core 8 Hardware Environment: PC Software Environment: Following YUM update Problem Description: After reboot following YUM update to new kernel - SiS 900PCI Fast Ethernet (driver sis900) can not ifconfig eth0. Configuration fails with message "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument". System does boot. SO To recover, insert FC8 DVD and copy original kernel RPM's to the hard drive. Then install the old Kernel with "rpm -ivh --force --hash *.rpm" and reboot. System comes up and configures the sis900 eth0 correctly at startup.
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Steps to reproduce: A machine with a SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet installed. INstall RC8 and apply the updates. After 2.6.24.3, reboot and notice the trouble.
Apparently a regression. I seem to recall having seen reports of this before.
What could cuase SIOCSIFFLAGS to newly return -EINVAL?
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Quoted 1 line · On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:36:55 -0800 (PST) [email protected] wrote:
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Problem Description: After reboot following YUM update to new kernel - SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet (driver sis900) can not ifconfig eth0. Configuration fails with message "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument". System does boot. [...]
Dan, could you add to bugzilla report: dmesg, lspci -vvv, and cat /proc/interrupts after such a boot?
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Apparently a regression. I seem to recall having seen reports of this before.
What could cuase SIOCSIFFLAGS to newly return
-EINVAL?
request_irq()?
Regards,
Jarek P.
Quoted 8 lines · Jarek Poplawski
Quoted 3 lines · Andrew Morton
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Problem Description: After reboot following YUM update to new kernel - SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet (driver sis900) can not ifconfig eth0. Configuration fails with message "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument". System does boot. [...]
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What could cuase SIOCSIFFLAGS to newly return
-EINVAL?
Second try: dev->validate_addr()?!
Dan, you don't have HW (MAC) address set on your card, and it's verified since 2.6.23.
Check if it can be done in BIOS (if it's onboard card) or in some Fedora config tool or file. To verify this idea try again in 2.6.24.3 something like this:
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:01
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.108
Regards,
Jarek P.
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:03:12AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
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Dan, you don't have HW (MAC) address set on your card, and it's verified since 2.6.23.
Actually: verified before open since 2.6.24.
Jarek P.