http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2525
Product: kernel
Component: kernel
Summary: eth0 interface does not connect with sis900
Version: 2.4.21-0.pre4.6mdk
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: critical
Priority: P2
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I installed mandrake 9.1-rc1 on a pentium4 with sis55xx chipset motherboard from
Asus, and a sis900 ethernet card included in the motherboard. This machine is
connetted to another PC through an ethernet cable, to make a home local network.
Both Pcs have local assigned IP addresses 192.168.1.1(-> the "server") and
192.168.1.2(->the P4 with Mandrake). Apparently all devices are correctly
configured and the the eth0 interface is up, as the "ifconfig" command shows.
But a "ping" command on the other PC (192.168.1.1) does not give any result, it
does not see the other PC. Moreover, error messages of the form "Watchdog:
Network..timed out" continue to accumulate at the bottom of the "dmesg" output.
At first I wondered if it was a problem of network configuration, but it is not.
I tried to install and compile the official 2.4.20 kernel from the linux
sources, reinstalled LILO with this kernel and rebooted and everything worked
fine, I was also able to go to the internet through the other PC internet
connection. Then I installed the 2.4.21pre4-6mdk sources and compiled them with
the same configuration I used for 2.4.20 and again the network refused to work.
So the network did not work with the "custom" 2.4.21pre4-6mdk kernel I built,
neither with the precompiled 2.4.21pre4-6mdk kernel present in the distribution.
Thanks for any possible solution (for now I am using the 2.4.20 kernel)
Vincenzo
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