On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: >> was with eth0 not showing up. It looks like I am the victim of the >> dreaded Realtek 8139 bug. It worked in XS 0.4 but in 0.5.1 it refuses >> to show up. > > Strange, but it does look like a driver problem. > > The links you provide show various different problems with that NIC. > In some cases, irqpoll in the kernel boot line fixes, in others some > fiddling with ethtool was needed... > > It'll be good to know which of the fixes helps you :-)
appending irqpoll has fixed that problem. Now, I've hit another bug. This is yum broken with _sha256 as stated here. http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=193507 I'm going to try the workaround. > > BTW, if you upgraded from XS-0.4, it might be a good idea to rm > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules No, this was a clean install. I'm running the server for testing only, so I can afford to wipe it clean. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel