Re: Network issues in 2.6

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Monday 05 April 2004 14:21, Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote:
> I upgraded from 2.4.22 to 2.6.5 (to test HPT374' support, which BTW, works
> fine).
>
> However, I'm having serious network issues now. The NIC is a 3com 3c905B.
> ifconfig shows this:
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:03:27:81:75
>           inet addr:192.168.20.1  Bcast:192.168.20.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:11241 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:9739 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:9732
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:2994485 (2.8 Mb)  TX bytes:835146 (815.5 Kb)
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd800
>
> Note that for TX packets, the carrier number is almost the same as the
> total packets.... booting in 2.4.22, there are zero problems.  The only
> difference in the ifconfig, other than that, is that in 2.4.22, I have
> "RUNNING" in the options (but I didn't find how to force that).

Hm. Thats strange. Your interface is not UP. It's not supposed to
do any tx/rx at all. Try to up it. If it does not work, 
strace 'ifconfig eth0 up' under both kernels and compare.
-- 
vda
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