RE: NIC Type Not Recognized

["Rajendra Singh" <public maxima rajendra ca>]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for responding.  Here are the answers to your questions.

1.  I am not running SELinux (disabled with kernel parameter selinux=0).
2.  Kernel version:  2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64
3.  eth1 =  D-Link System Inc DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
4.  From dmesg:  skge eth1: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow
control both

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Mr. Rajendra Singh, B. Sc.
Email:  public maxima rajendra ca
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Williams [mailto:dcbw redhat com]
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 1:42 PM
> To: Rajendra Singh
> Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: NIC Type Not Recognized
> 
> 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
>