It may of course be pure coincidence, but I have just upgraded one of
my systems from RH9 to FC1, and my ethernet card has stopped working.
Could it be a coincidental hardware problem, or is it a software problem?
Here is the output from dmesg:
Linux version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 SMP Wed Oct 29 15:30:09 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fffd000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fffd000 - 000000000ffff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffff000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
255MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0002000
found SMP MP-table at 000f6ce0
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice.
On node 0 totalpages: 65533
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61437 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 98 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
ASUS P2B-DS detected: force use of acpi=ht
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f7ef0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS P2B-DS 0x00000000 0x00000000) @ 0x0fffd000
ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS P2B-DS 0x00000000 0x00000000) @ 0x0fffd080
ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS P2B-DS 0x00000000 0x00000000) @ 0x0fffd040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS P2B-DS 0x00001000 MSFT 0x01000001) @ 0x00000000
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Processors: 2
xAPIC support is not present
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ vga=8 noapic
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 451.028 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 132x43
Calibrating delay loop... 897.84 BogoMIPS
Memory: 254820k/262132k available (1646k kernel code, 6924k reserved, 1183k data, 164k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1461.42 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 10 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Booting processor 1/0 eip 3000
Initializing CPU#1
masked ExtINT on CPU#1
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Calibrating delay loop... 901.12 BogoMIPS
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU1: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
Total of 2 processors activated (1798.96 BogoMIPS).
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 451.0182 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 100.2260 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1002260, slice: 334086
CPU0<T0:1002256,T1:668160,D:10,S:334086,C:1002260>
cpu: 1, clocks: 1002260, slice: 334086
CPU1<T0:1002256,T1:334080,D:4,S:334086,C:1002260>
Starting migration thread for cpu 0
smp_num_cpus: 2.
Starting migration thread for cpu 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0750, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:04.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c0471400, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
hdd: GCD-R540, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue c0471874, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x10 { SeekComplete }
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 12715920 sectors (6511 MB) w/448KiB Cache, CHS=791/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
hdc: host protected area => 1
hdc: 60036480 sectors (30739 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
hdc: hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 hdc8 >
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 164k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:39:11 Oct 29 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:04.2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,5), internal journal
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) module loaded
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Adding Swap: 128480k swap-space (priority 5)
Adding Swap: 128480k swap-space (priority 4)
Adding Swap: 128480k swap-space (priority 3)
Adding Swap: 120448k swap-space (priority 3)
Adding Swap: 127976k swap-space (priority 5)
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.19a, 15:39:32 Oct 29 2003
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,6), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
cdrom: open failed.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,8), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
blk: queue c0471400, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c0471874, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx>
microcode: CPU1 no microcode found! (sig=652, pflags=1)
microcode: CPU0 no microcode found! (sig=652, pflags=1)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
00:0a.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0xd000. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
00:a0:24:cf:ad:ab, IRQ 10
product code 4650 rev 00.0 date 07-18-96
Internal config register is 10302d8, transceivers 0xe138.
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
00:0a.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums disabled
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
00:0a.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0xd000. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
00:a0:24:cf:ad:ab, IRQ 10
product code 4650 rev 00.0 date 07-18-96
Internal config register is 102001b, transceivers 0xe138.
64K word-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
00:0a.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums disabled
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register d0.
Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 1(1) current 1(1)
Transmit list 00000000 vs. cea6f240.
0: @cea6f200 length 8000002a status 8000002a
1: @cea6f240 length 00000000 status 00000000
2: @cea6f280 length 00000000 status 00000000
3: @cea6f2c0 length 00000000 status 00000000
4: @cea6f300 length 00000000 status 00000000
5: @cea6f340 length 00000000 status 00000000
6: @cea6f380 length 00000000 status 00000000
7: @cea6f3c0 length 00000000 status 00000000
8: @cea6f400 length 00000000 status 00000000
9: @cea6f440 length 00000000 status 00000000
10: @cea6f480 length 00000000 status 00000000
11: @cea6f4c0 length 00000000 status 00000000
12: @cea6f500 length 00000000 status 00000000
13: @cea6f540 length 00000000 status 00000000
14: @cea6f580 length 00000000 status 00000000
15: @cea6f5c0 length 00000000 status 00000000
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
blk: queue c0471400, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hda: DMA disabled
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Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire
