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Realtek RTL 8169 no longer able to connect after upgrade
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| GadgetKing@gmail.com 2005-01-15, 7:45 am |
| I was running at AS 3.0 Update 2 (2.4.21-9EL) and had my network
configured and working.
I upgraded to AS 3.0 Update 4 (2.4.21-27EL) and the network device is
no longer functioning. When I boot, I get the hardware configuration
wizard coming up and telling me that I do not have the device and
whether I should remove the config.
I have done that, restarted and was able to remote the network entry
from the network configuration (using the UI and yes, the entry was
removed from the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory) and then
reconfigure the device to no avail.
I do an modprobe r8169 and it succeeds and I see that there is an entry
when i do an lsmod (autoclean) with CRC32 being the only module using
it.
There is no /dev/eth0 device.
Clues?
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| Jean-David Beyer 2005-01-15, 5:45 pm |
| GadgetKing@gmail.com wrote:
> I was running at AS 3.0 Update 2 (2.4.21-9EL) and had my network
> configured and working.
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> I upgraded to AS 3.0 Update 4 (2.4.21-27EL)
Something funny here. The latest kernels that came with Update 4 to RHEL 3
are:
kernel-smp-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL
kernel-source-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL
> and the network device is
> no longer functioning. When I boot, I get the hardware configuration
> wizard coming up and telling me that I do not have the device and
> whether I should remove the config.
I have had a lot of problems with Update 4.
First of all, the system would not run at run level 5. This was due to the
fact that they moved file /etc/pango/pango.modules to
/etc/pango/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/pango.modules and in the process, they
changed its permissions from 0644 to 0640. So it would not even put up the
"greeter" screen correctly.
Second, the little applet that tells about updates, that is normally a
blue dot with a white checkmark, but is a red dot with a flashing white
exclamation point when updates are available, checks in with Red Hat every
minute instead of every once in a long while (4 hours?). This kept my
demand dialing Internet link from ever shutting down. Fortunately I have a
tolerant ISP who do not mind my staying up for such long intervals. The
fix is to change the last few lines in ~/rhn-applet.conf file like this:
remindTimeStamp[comment]=None
#remindTimeStamp=1104625865.4 <---<<< YMMV
remindTimeStamp=NEVERREMIND
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> I have done that, restarted and was able to remote the network entry
> from the network configuration (using the UI and yes, the entry was
> removed from the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory) and then
> reconfigure the device to no avail.
>
> I do an modprobe r8169 and it succeeds and I see that there is an entry
> when i do an lsmod (autoclean) with CRC32 being the only module using
> it.
>
> There is no /dev/eth0 device.
>
> Clues?
>
I have not had those problems because after reinstalling the whole thing,
I replaced everything in /etc with what was on a very recent backup tape,
so my configurations are as before. I have always found configuring
networking with Red Hats GUI tools to be extremely confusing and lacking
some of the stuff I needed, so I have been forced to use emacs to make the
files I needed. At least their current tools are better than the old
linuxconf.
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| GadgetKing@gmail.com 2005-01-15, 5:45 pm |
| I know what you mean about the UI tools. I have manually inspected the
network-scripts and the modules.conf and it is as it should be (or
appears to be).
What other diagnostics can I try besides a ping to a system in the same
subnet to see if the network is functioning?
Should I have a /dev/eth0? I don't recall checking for this before.
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| Jean-David Beyer 2005-01-15, 5:45 pm |
| GadgetKing@gmail.com wrote:
> I know what you mean about the UI tools. I have manually inspected the
> network-scripts and the modules.conf and it is as it should be (or
> appears to be).
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> What other diagnostics can I try besides a ping to a system in the same
> subnet to see if the network is functioning?
You can try ifconfig to see what your entire network as seen by your
machine has been doing. I assume the counts start at boot time. N.B.: my
eth1 does not have anything on it anymore: I gave that machine away.
> Should I have a /dev/eth0? I don't recall checking for this before.
>
If you have an ethernet card (or equivalent on-board), you should have an
eth? on there, and eth0 makes the most sense.
$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:29:1D:5E
inet addr:192.168.1.251 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7592125 errors:44 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:44
TX packets:1507786 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1948181676 (1857.9 Mb) TX bytes:432556384 (412.5 Mb)
Base address:0x3000 Memory:fc200000-fc220000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:29:1D:5F
inet addr:192.168.2.251 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
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)
Base address:0x3040 Memory:fc220000-fc240000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:87620 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:87620 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:40069547 (38.2 Mb) TX bytes:40069547 (38.2 Mb)
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:123.456.789.012 P-t-P:12.35.56.78 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:933835 errors:37328 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:831973 errors:0 dropped:2965 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:952114386 (908.0 Mb) TX bytes:121660377 (116.0 Mb)
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