http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5477
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What |Removed |Added
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Component|ifplugd |kernel
Product|ifplugd |kernel
Version|0.15-4mdk |2.4.22-5mdk
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-10-09 21:24 -------
This is a kernel issue, the driver for your network card lies about the media
status.
You can tell for sure by giving the output of:
# ifstatus -v eth0
and since your card is using MII, also with:
# mii-tool -v
In 2.4.23pre2 (IIRC) Jeff Garzik added MII support for a lot of cards, maybe
yours is supported by this? The kernel team is hoping to have that patch in the
kernel for 9.2 ...
Since I don't know what kernel you are running, please adjust the release number
appropriately.
In the meantime, it may be possible to have your card added to the blacklist, I
think drakconnect has the blacklist for cards that lie about their status (but
IIRC, this card was already blacklisted).
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On my computer (see network hardware informations below), ifplugd fails to
initialize my ethernet connection.
dmesg :
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
00:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x9800. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX, IRQ 10
product code 4b4b rev 00.0 date 01-04-80
Internal config register is 16302d8, transceivers 0xe040.
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786f.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
00:0b.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums disabled
eth0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
messages in LogDrake :
Sep 10 16:09:49 tomlin ifplugd(eth0)[881]: Using interface
eth0/XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX with driver <3c59x> (version: LK1.1.18-ac)
Sep 10 16:09:49 tomlin ifplugd(eth0)[881]: Using detection mode: SIOCGMIIPHY
Sep 10 16:09:49 tomlin ifplugd(eth0)[881]: ifplugd 0.15 successfully
initialized, link beat not detected. (NOTE: the cable is connected...)
Sep 10 16:09:49 tomlin network: Bringing up interface eth0 (ifplugd): failed
I can make my connection working by typing "ifup eth0".
A workaround is to append "MII_NOT_SUPPORTED" to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 : then ifup is used instead of ifplugd
(see /etc/init.d/network).
