On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 4:29 PM, Peter Ruprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone tried RHEL5 with a Sun Ultra-40 workstation? I just upgraded > > one from RHEL4 but now the onboard network interfaces aren't being seen. > > The U40 has an nvidia chipset and ethernet, and the forcedeth driver > > seemed to work fine with it under RHEL4. > > > > Now, however, even lspci doesn't show any sign of ethernet interfaces. > > I'm pretty confident that the hardware didn't suddenly stop working, as > > the LAN is still enabled in the BIOS and the link light comes on when I > > plug in the ethernet cable. I'm using the latest BIOS from Sun. > > > > I installed the latest kernel (2.6.18-53.1.4) via thumb drive, but that > > seems not to have helped at all. Nor has a full "yum update", which I > > could complete after adding a 3com PCI ethernet card. > > > > There's at least one existing bugzilla (420361) suggesting problems > > with nvidia components and RHEL5, but in that case the issue seemed to > > be with nv_sata. > > > > Any ideas what to look at next? I can post whatever logs or other info > > might be useful. I'll open a bug if there doesn't seem to be some > > obvious thing I'm missing. > > > > I am guessing it is an APIC issue as not seeing hardware on the PCI > bus is awfully funny. > > The first thing to try is the brute force thing with the kernel options > > noapic nolapic > > and see if that works. After that.. it seems that people have had to > use the Nvidia propietary driver for the 2.6.15+ kernels. >
OK, figured it out. There was this line in /etc/modprobe.conf install forcedeth /bin/true that seemed to be preventing the forcedeth driver from loading properly. -Peter Ruprecht _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
