On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:43:12 -0600, Scott Mazur wrote > On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:49:55 -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote > > This is possibly a dumb question or at least a question with not > > enough information, but I'm was trying to upgrade my kernel from the > > 2.6.3-7mdk rpm to the source 2.6.7 from kernel.org (with the -ck4 > > patch). The problem I'm having is that when I try to use it, it > > seems to insist on using IPV6, so it's not getting any IP address > > from my gateway. It ends up assigning some number to eth0 and then > > some bad number to eth0:9 and basically not working. > > > > Any clues? > > I had a similar problem moving from 2.6.3-7mdk to 2.6.3-14mdk (at > least it appears similar). Eth0 would take forever to load (and > eventually fail). Ifconfig looked like all the network interfaces > were in IPV6 mode. My solution was to check the 'no acpi' box in > the mcc boot config. Never spent any time looking into it beyond > that, but I did notice that ifconfig reports IPV6 information even > on a non IPV6 network. I suspect the nic hardware was just not > being setup properly, and lacking a solid IPV4 ip address, ifconfig > reported only the IPV6 info.
Sorry, it was the 'Force no local APIC' box I checked, not acpi. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca)
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