Re: NIC Type Not Recognized

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:53 -0400, Rajendra Singh wrote:
> Yesterday I installed Fedora 9 (I was running Fedora 8 before). The
> machine has two NICs, one is on the motherboard (and is detected
> fine), the second is a D-Link gigabit card. On Fedora 8 both worked
> flawlessly. In Fedora 9 they both work fine too, except during boot
> the second card (the D-Link) does not come up. I have to login and
> issue "ifup eth1" to get it up.
> 
> When I look in /var/log/messages, I see:
> Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> starting...
> Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> eth0: Device is
> fully-supported using driver 'forcedeth'.
> Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> Found new Ethernet device
> 'eth0'.
> Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported
> as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1a_a0_68_9f_18
> Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> eth1: Device is
> fully-supported using driver 'skge'.
> Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> Found new Ethernet device
> 'eth1'.
> Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): exported
> as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1b_11_11_4a_5b
> Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the
> supplicant...
> Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the
> system settings daemon...
> Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin ifcfg-fedora:
> (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. To report bugs please use the
> NetworkManager mailing list.
> Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora:
> parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ...
> Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora: read
> connection 'System eth0'
> Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora:
> parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ...
> Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora: error: File
> '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1' specified device 'eth1',
> but the device's type could not be determined.
> Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora:
> parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ...
> Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora: error:
> Ignoring loopback device config.
> 
> Any idea why "device type could not be determined" happens for eth1?

Nope; but a few questions:

1) Are you running SELinux?
2) What kernel version do you have?
3) What hardware is your eth1?
4) What driver runs your eth1?

There are two reasons that this message would be printed out; (a)
nm-system-settings is unable to call socket() or (b) the driver returns
something other than EOPNOTSUPP for for ioctl(SIOCGIWRANGE).

Dan