Bug 70750

Summary:	tulip NIC driver does not load
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	gerd.bitzer
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description gerd.bitzer 2004-11-11 00:26:20 UTC

The tulip ethernet card driver does not load at least with kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1. Errormessage is:

# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
  * Bringing eth0 up (192.168.2.254)...
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device    [ !! ]

But with the de4x5 driver the same NIC works without a problem:

BlackHole root # modprobe de4x5
BlackHole root # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
BlackHole root # ping 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.76 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.09 ms

The tulip driver of kernel 2.4.27 works also without a problem. Do not know when it was broken.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. modprobe tulip or
2. /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
3.

Actual Results:  
see in the details section

Expected Results:  
bring the NIC up

A workaround (which worked on my box) is to use the de4x5 driver instead of the
broken tulip (see also details)

Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-11 08:23:51 UTC

Please post output of "lspci" and "lspci -n"

Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-11 09:31:50 UTC

Then use the driver that works :)

This isn't a bug, sorry.