Re: 2.4.4 breaks dhcpcd with Realtek 8139

Garett Spencley (gspen@home.com)
Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:44:58 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Michael F Gordon wrote:

> dhcpcd stops working if I install 2.4.4. Replacing the 2.4.4 version of
> 8139too.c with the 2.4.3 version and leaving everything else exactly
> the same gets things working again. Configuring the interface by hand
> after dhcpcd has timed out also works. Has anyone else seen this?

I noticed this in 2.4.3-acX series as well. But here's the funny part:
When dhcp starts up during bootup it doesn't work. But as
soon as I log in and do a su -c '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart' there's
instant success!

This is on Mandrake 8.0

It doesn't make much sense to me.

--
Garett

> ISC DHCP 2.0, kernel compiled with gcc 2.95.2 > > lspci: > 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 8139 (rev 10) > > Boot messages with 2.4.3 version: > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.15c loaded > PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:12.0 > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc9804f00, 00:10:a7:05:8e:da, IRQ 5 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' > > Boot messages with 2.4.4 version: > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.16 > PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:12.0 > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc9804f00, 00:10:a7:05:8e:da, IRQ 5 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' > > > > Michael Gordon > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >

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