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    DateSun, 27 Aug 2006 00:19:43 -0700
    FromAndrew Morton <>
    SubjectRe: 2.6.18-rc4-mm[1,2,3] -- Network card not getting assigned an "eth" device name
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    On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:07:50 -0700
    "Miles Lane" <miles.lane@gmail.com> wrote:
    
    > I have a:
    > 
    > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8fa2800, 00:c0:9f:95:18:1b, IRQ 10
    > eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
    > 
    > and a:
    > 
    > ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kd
    > ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
    > ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
    > ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
    > 
    > My dmesg output includes:
    > w<8E>^U<C1>: link down
    > NET: Registered protocol family 10
    > lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
    > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): w<8E>^U<C1>: link is not ready
    > 
    > As you can see, one of my network cards is getting "w<8E>^U<C1>" as a
    > device name.  This isn't the actual string.  Here's what I get by
    > cutting and pasting from iwconfig: "w�"
    > 
    > ifconfig shows:
    > HWaddr 00:C0:9F:95:18:1B
    >           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
    >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    >           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
    >           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2800
    > 
    > In most of my builds it has been the ipw2200 which gets busted by this
    > problem.  This time, ifconfig sees eth1 and not eth0.  Oddly, dmesg
    > output includes:
    > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8fa2800, 00:c0:9f:95:18:1b, IRQ 10
    > eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
    > so I am puzzled at the disappearance of eth0 from the ifconfig output.
    
    Jeremy reported that a while back too.  I do not know what is causing it
    and as far as I know no net developers have yet looked into it.
    
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