Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm[1,2,3] -- Network card not getting assigned an "eth" device name

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:07:50 -0700
"Miles Lane" <miles.lane@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a:
> 
> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8fa2800, 00:c0:9f:95:18:1b, IRQ 10
> eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
> 
> and a:
> 
> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kd
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
> ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
> 
> My dmesg output includes:
> w<8E>^U<C1>: link down
> NET: Registered protocol family 10
> lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): w<8E>^U<C1>: link is not ready
> 
> As you can see, one of my network cards is getting "w<8E>^U<C1>" as a
> device name.  This isn't the actual string.  Here's what I get by
> cutting and pasting from iwconfig: "w�"
> 
> ifconfig shows:
> HWaddr 00:C0:9F:95:18:1B
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2800
> 
> In most of my builds it has been the ipw2200 which gets busted by this
> problem.  This time, ifconfig sees eth1 and not eth0.  Oddly, dmesg
> output includes:
> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8fa2800, 00:c0:9f:95:18:1b, IRQ 10
> eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
> so I am puzzled at the disappearance of eth0 from the ifconfig output.

Jeremy reported that a while back too.  I do not know what is causing it
and as far as I know no net developers have yet looked into it.

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