Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10201] New: Yum update of Kernel broke sis900 ethernet driver

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:03:12 +0000

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:19:28AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On 09-03-2008 00:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat,  8 Mar 2008 15:36:55 -0800 (PST) [email-masked] wrote:
> > 
> >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10201
> ...
> >> Problem Description:  After reboot following YUM update to new kernel - SiS 900
> >> PCI Fast Ethernet (driver sis900) can not ifconfig eth0.  Configuration fails
> >> with  message "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument".  System does boot. [...]
...
> > What could cuase SIOCSIFFLAGS to newly return -EINVAL?

Second try: dev->validate_addr()?!

Dan, you don't have HW (MAC) address set on your card, and it's
verified since 2.6.23.

Check if it can be done in BIOS (if it's onboard card) or in some
Fedora config tool or file. To verify this idea try again in 2.6.24.3
something like this:

ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:01
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.108

Regards,
Jarek P.