Hi,
I upgraded my server with mdk 9.1 (def) and I had problem with the network : eth0 does
not come up properly (no ip).
In syslog:
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
00:10.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x1000. Vers LK1.1.16
[...]
Mar 28 18:03:19 neptune network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
Mar 28 18:03:19 neptune ifplugd[740]: Warning: Could not get interface address.
Mar 28 18:03:19 neptune ifplugd[740]: Using interface eth0/00:60:08:77:EA:ED with
driver 3c59x LK1.1.16
Mar 28 18:03:19 neptune ifplugd[740]: ETHTOOL_GLINK failed: Operation not supported
Mar 28 18:03:19 neptune ifplugd[740]: ifplugd 0.13 successfully initialized, link beat
not detected.
If I try to restart network :
#/etc/init.d/network restart
Apr 1 11:42:17 neptune network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
Apr 1 11:42:17 neptune ifplugd[5017]: Using interface eth0/00:60:08:77:EA:ED with
driver 3c59x LK1.1.16
Apr 1 11:42:17 neptune ifplugd[5017]: ETHTOOL_GLINK failed: Operation not supported
Apr 1 11:42:17 neptune ifplugd[5017]: ifplugd 0.13 successfully initialized, link
beat not detected.
Apr 1 11:42:17 neptune network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed
I determined the problem to be with ifstatus :
# ifstatus -v eth0
eth0:
SIOCETHTOOL failed (Operation not supported)
SIOCGMIIPHY: unplugged
SIOCDEVPRIVATE: unplugged
# mii-tool -v eth0
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
product info: National DP83840A rev 1
basic mode: autonegotiation enabled
basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
link partner: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control
I solved this inserting in ifcfg-eth0 :
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=1
but I had the same problem with my Laptop HP Omnibook XE3 Accton card (tulip)
What is wrong with ifstatus ?
Bruno Damour
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