From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267806AbUJVVJE (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:09:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267743AbUJVVHa (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:07:30 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:9666 "EHLO fire-1.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267806AbUJVVAH (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:00:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:01:02 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Denis Vlasenko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: cannot up iface in 2.6.9, was working in 2.6.9-rc3 Message-Id: <20041022140102.034e8368@zqx3.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <200410222159.26369.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> References: <200410222159.26369.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Organization: Open Source Development Lab X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-suse-linux) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:59:26 +0300 Denis Vlasenko wrote: > I have an onboard VIA eth: > > # lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] > 00:0a.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface > 00:0c.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor D-Links DWL-g650 A1 (rev 01) > 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80) > 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80) > 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80) > 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) > 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge > 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) > 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev a1) > > It cannot be upped: > > # ip l set dev if up > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented > # ifconfig if up > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented > # busybox ip l set dev if up > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented > > Strace (busybox one is smallest): > > execve("/usr/bin/busybox", ["busybox", "ip", "l", "set", "dev", "if", "up"], [/* 28 vars */]) = 0 > fcntl64(0, F_GETFD) = 0 > fcntl64(1, F_GETFD) = 0 > fcntl64(2, F_GETFD) = 0 > uname({sys="Linux", node="shadow", ...}) = 0 > geteuid32() = 0 > getuid32() = 0 > getegid32() = 0 > getgid32() = 0 > brk(0) = 0x81ab000 > brk(0x81ac000) = 0x81ac000 > socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4 > ioctl(4, 0x8913, 0xbffff9e0) = 0 > ioctl(4, 0x8914, 0xbffff9e0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) > dup(2) = 5 > fcntl64(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) > fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 2), ...}) = 0 > old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40000000 > _llseek(5, 0, 0xbffff830, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) > write(5, "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not imple"..., 39) = 39 > close(5) = 0 > munmap(0x40000000, 4096) = 0 > close(4) = 0 > write(2, "BusyBox v1.00-pre8 (2004.03.31-2"..., 295) = 295 > _exit(1) > > It was working in 2.6.9-rc3. > > drivers/net/via-rhine.c did not change between rc3 and "official" 2.6.9 > -- > vda Is your ethernet device really named "if" not "eth0". You must be using nameif or something to rename it. Perhaps the name isn't what you expect. Look at things like: ifconfig -a and ls /sys/class/net What ever you are using to assign the name "if" to the device is (which defaults to eth0) probably got confused