Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:47:22 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:47:00 -0800
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@google.com> wrote:

> Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc3/2.6.19-rc3-mm1/
> >>
> >> - ia64 doesn't compile due to improvements in acpi.  I already fixed a huge
> >>   string of build errors due to this and it's someone else's turn.
> >>
> >> - For some reason Greg has resurrected the patches which detect whether
> >>   you're using old versions of udev and if so, punish you for it.
> >>
> >>   If weird stuff happens, try upgrading udev.
> > 
> > I have four machines showing problems with 2.6.19-rc3-mm1.  In each case
> > they appear to have lost their ethernet cards completely.  I have a
> > ppc64 using ibm_veth, two ppc64's using e1000's and an x86_64 using a
> > Tigon 3.
> > 
> > Before I had results from the non e1000 machines I did try backing out
> > all e1000 patches to no effect.  I also had a quick scan of the
> > changelogs for net/ and nothing jumped out at me.
> > 
> > Any suggestions what to hack out next?
> 
> At least on one machine with 8 tg3 cards, it finds all its interfaces,
> but then drops into:
> 
> 
> 
> Setting up network interfaces:
>       lo
>      lo        IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
> 7[?25l[1A[80C[10D[1;32mdone[m8[?25h    eth0
>                No configuration found for eth0
> 7[?25l[1A[80C[10D[1munused[m8[?25h    eth1
>              No configuration found for eth1
> 
> for all 8 cards.

What version of udev is being used?

Was CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED set?
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