Re: 2.2.19 and eepro100

Stefan Hoffmeister (lkml.2001@econos.de)
Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:35:54 +0200


: On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:54:05 +0200, Olaf Zaplinski wrote:

>I got the 2.2.19 sorces, patched them with reiserfs, compiled and booted the
>new kernel. Neither the builtin eepro100 nor Intels e100-1.6.13 driver
>worked; they were loaded, but ifconfig failed:
>
>+ ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.235 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
>up
>SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
>SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable

Try to cold boot. I have experienced difficulties with 2.4.x and 2.2.x
interacting on a cold reboot.

It would seem that the 2.2.19 kernel does not get a valid MAC address when
*warm* booted into from a 2.4.x kernel.

[This used to be a problem with 2.4.x <-> 2.4.x, but 2.4.7 fixed that.]
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