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