Re: 2.6.18-rc7-mm1: networking breakage on HPC nx6325 + SUSE 10.1

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Sep 19 2006 - 17:27:44 EST


On Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:36, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:25:21 +0200
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > - It took maybe ten hours solid work to get this dogpile vaguely
> > > compiling and limping to a login prompt on x86, x86_64 and powerpc.
> > > I guess it's worth briefly testing if you're keen.
> >
> > It's not that bad, but unfortunately the networking doesn't work on my system
> > (HPC nx6325 + SUSE 10.1 w/ updates, 64-bit). Apparently, the interfaces don't
> > get configured (both tg3 and bcm43xx are affected).
>
> Is there anything interesting in the dmesg output?

Not to me. :-)

> Perhaps an `strace -f ifup' or whatever would tell us what's failing.

Well, I can configure the interfaces manually, with ifconfig, but the SUSE's
configuration tools don't work. For example, "ifup eth0" tells me that
"No configuration found for eth0" and that's all.

Also, powersaved segfaults at startup so I think the problem is with hal
vs sysfs (again).

The output of dmesg after a fresh boot and the "strace ifup eth0" output
are attached.

Greetings,
Rafael


--
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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