On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 10:32 +0200, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
On 8/4/07, Andreas Rogge wrote:
As of CentOS 4, the sundance driver is in the centosplus kernel.
I've seen strange behaviour with kudzu when using sundance with that D-Link adapter (i.e. on every bootup kudzu tells you the NICs were removed and that four new NICs were installed). That might be the issue why RH decided to disable the driver in their kernel. However, disabling kudzu solved the issue.
this sounds similar to the problems I had with a Sun quad card: depending on the bios, the system may have problems accessing the option rom on the card. I solved that setting the mac address in the options in /etc/modprobe.conf..... (this card uses the sunhme driver).
I use that Adapter in a Firewall-Box at one of my customer's sites and we only had one issue in the last two years: one day one of the ports suddenly stopped working. However, a reboot solved the issue.
Andreas, you're right we also had the kudzu problem. First I got eth0-eth3, after reboot eth4-eth7, after reboot again eth0-eth3, ... For me disabling kudzu also solved the issue. I just forgot about this fact.
see above.... Setting the start mac address solved the issue. The sundance driver unfortunately does not support that option I believe..... kind regards, Louis