anyone else having weird networking issues with the latest FC5 (2.6.17) kernel?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Jun 26 18:15:53 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:54 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 6/26/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:36 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > I'm seeing some bizarre networking problems with the latest FC5
> > > kernel. On one system, all of my ethernet interfaces have reversed
> > > themselves. eth2 is now eth0, eth0 is eth2. If I boot back into the
> > > last 2.6.16 based kernel, everything 'works' as expected again.
> > >
> > > On another system, where I'm using ndiswrapper-1.18 for a PCI wifi
> > > NIC, it just doens't work at all in the 2.6.17 kernel. I see tons of
> > > messages in dmesg about wlan0 getting reset, and there's no throughput
> > > at all (100% packet loss). Falling back to the last 2.6.16 kernel
> > > fixed that problem too.
> > >
> > This sounds like a resurfacing of an earlier problem where the new
> > kernel and utilities changed the order in which devices were scanned on
> > the mobo. The names are assigned in the order they are seen by default,
> > but IIRC there are workarounds that will force the system to always
> > assign the same nic the same name.
>
> do you happen to remember what that workaround was?
>
Rick Stevens answered in another reply.
> >
> > I have not seen the nic problem and do not remember the details, but
> > then I do not have multiple NICs, nor am I using ndiswrapper on my PC.
> > When I was using ndiswrapper, IIRC it had to be recompiled for each
> > kernel update.
>
> Right, but that's not the problem i'm having. The module was
> recompiled, it loads fine, wlan0 comes up, i get 100% packet loss,
> with loads of reset errors in dmesg.
>
Have you tried removing the driver and reinstalling it since you did the
ndiswrapper recompile?
This symptom usually means a problem with the kernel - hardware
interface, and since the ndiswrapper - driver interface is part of
that...? It likely is something that recently changed (kernel and
ndiswrapper) has a problem with something that did not change (hardware
& driver?).
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