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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk•pl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl•org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc7-mm1: networking breakage on HPC nx6325 + SUSE 10.1
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:06:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609200006.53138.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609192330.34769.rjw@sisk.pl>

On Tuesday, 19 September 2006 23:30, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:36, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:25:21 +0200
> > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk•pl> wrote:
> > 
> > > > - It took maybe ten hours solid work to get this dogpile vaguely
> > > >   compiling and limping to a login prompt on x86, x86_64 and powerpc. 
> > > >   I guess it's worth briefly testing if you're keen.
> > > 
> > > It's not that bad, but unfortunately the networking doesn't work on my system
> > > (HPC nx6325 + SUSE 10.1 w/ updates, 64-bit).  Apparently, the interfaces don't
> > > get configured (both tg3 and bcm43xx are affected).
> > 
> > Is there anything interesting in the dmesg output?
> 
> Not to me. :-)
>  
> > Perhaps an `strace -f ifup' or whatever would tell us what's failing.
> 
> Well, I can configure the interfaces manually, with ifconfig, but the SUSE's
> configuration tools don't work.  For example, "ifup eth0" tells me that
> "No configuration found for eth0" and that's all.
> 
> Also, powersaved segfaults at startup so I think the problem is with hal
> vs sysfs (again).
> 
> The output of dmesg after a fresh boot and the "strace ifup eth0" output
> are attached.

I _guess_ the problem is caused by
gregkh-driver-network-class_device-to-device.patch, but I can't verify this,
because the kernel (obviously) doesn't compile if I revert it.

Greetings,
Rafael


-- 
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
		R. Buckminster Fuller

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-19 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060919012848.4482666d.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found] ` <200609192225.21801.rjw@sisk.pl>
2006-09-19 20:36   ` 2.6.18-rc7-mm1 Andrew Morton
2006-09-19 21:30     ` 2.6.18-rc7-mm1: networking breakage on HPC nx6325 + SUSE 10.1 Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-19 22:06       ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2006-09-19 22:06         ` David Miller
2006-09-19 22:30           ` Greg KH
2006-09-19 22:56             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-20  2:28               ` Greg KH
2006-09-20  1:31             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-20  1:03       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-20 14:23     ` 2.6.18-rc7-mm1 Mike Galbraith
2006-09-20 13:18       ` 2.6.18-rc7-mm1 Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-21  9:44       ` 2.6.18-rc7-mm1 Andi Kleen

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