Ok, I have decided the problem lays in via-rhine.c, the ethernet driver
for my card. The second boot finds the mac address as 00's all the time,
regardless of whether the driver is compiled as a module, or monolith.
On 28 May 2001 16:18:55 -0400, Daniel Rose wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm having problems with 2.4.5 and my pppoe connection.
> The kernel compiles fine, and works fine too, until I reboot, at which
> time it decides it no longer wants to work, and any time I attempt to
> call my start-pppoe script, i get:
>
> May 28 15:54:28 rocket pppd[3091]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
> May 28 15:54:28 rocket pppd[3091]: Using interface ppp0
> May 28 15:54:28 rocket pppd[3091]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyp0
> May 28 15:54:43 rocket pppd[3091]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> May 28 15:54:43 rocket pppd[3091]: Modem hangup
> May 28 15:54:43 rocket pppd[3091]: Connection terminated.
> May 28 15:54:44 rocket pppd[3091]: Exit.
>
> I am assuming that this is because of my eth0, which shows in ifconfig:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 (it's using
> via-rhine chipset, compiled into kernel, not a module)
>
> This _only_ occurs after I reboot (ie. i can start up the new 2.4.5
> kernel and work it perfectly once, then reboot and it doesnt work)
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel Rose
>
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