[2.6.18-rc7-mm1] ethernet configuration scripts of SuSE 10.0 broken

[Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>]

When booting kernel 2.6.18-rc7-mm1 on my SuSE Linux 10.0 system,
setup of the Ethernet interface fails. The startup screen displays:

Waiting for mandatory devices:  eth-id-00:b0:d0:ed:50:2a __NSC__
14 13 11 10 9 8 6 5 4 2 1 0
    eth-id-00:b0:d0:ed:50:2a            No interface found
failed

and there is no network connectivity. Running the command:

# rcnetwork start

displays:

    eth0      No configuration found for eth0

and doesn't bring up the interface either. Explicitly specifying
the configuration with:

# ifup eth-id-00:b0:d0:ed:50:2a eth0

however brings up the interface successfully. So it seems that
it's just SuSE's convoluted tangle of network startup scripts
which is somehow confused by some subtle change in how Ethernet
interfaces present themselves to userspace in this mm release.

Neither kernel 2.6.18 (release) nor 2.6.18-rc6-mm2 exhibit that
problem.

Hardware: Dell OptiPlex GX110, Intel Pentium III, 933 MHz, 512 MB RAM,
i810 chipset, Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
Software: SuSE Linux 10.0 Professional with current patches plus
self-compiled kernel 2.6.18-rc7-mm1

Thanks
Tilman

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Tilman Schmidt                          E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
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