Re: 2.6.19 and up to 2.6.20-rc2 Ethernet problems x86_64

[Jarek Poplawski]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:53:58PM +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
...
> It seems >=2.6.19 and the SuSEfirewall are incompatible.

Actually, many programs could be incomapatible with
newer kernel versions, so sometimes upgrades or at
least recompilations are needed. 
  
...
> There is still the problem where the ethernet doesn't get configured 
> with acpi=off which I shall post to the acpi devel list, but this is not 
> a showstopper for me. ifconfig eth0 192.168.10.5 returns SIOCSIFFLAGS: 

I don't know acpi enough but as far as I know
some mainboards can't work properly with acpi
off, so it's probably not a bug.

Cheers,
Jarek P. 
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