ifconfig generates oops. in 2.1.73

Peter Enderborg (pme@abnamro-software.com)
Fri, 19 Dec 1997 12:12:33 +0100

The 2.1.73 kernel gets oops when i the startup scrips starts the
ifconfig command.
And the oops pointout that it is ifconfig that is the problem. The
system do not continue, so I do not
have any logs to submit. The hardware:
Dell Dimention XPS 266 pentium II, Matrox, and the boomerang from 3com.
(I do not know
when the problem started.) There have not been any support for 3c905 for
a while. In 2.1.72
it was version 0.25 of the driver. (No boomerang) And with 2.1.73 we
are back on 0.46B. I
used to work OK in 2.1.65.

My kernel config:
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_M686=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL3=y
CONFIG_VORTEX=y
CONFIG_NET_EISA=y
CONFIG_EEXPRESS_PRO100=y
CONFIG_CDROM=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SB=y
CONFIG_ADLIB=y
SBC_BASE=220
SBC_IRQ=7
SBC_DMA=1
SB_DMA2=5
SB_MPU_BASE=330
SB_MPU_IRQ=-1