Beige G3/266, kernel 2.6.10 and no ethernet

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

It's a feature, not a bug. add the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias eth0 bmac

On Thu, 12 May 2005 19:32:06 -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> The title says it all.
> 
> I had to restart my YDL 4.0 (upgraded to 4.0.1) server running on a
> Beige G3/266 and decided to try out the new kernel.
> 
> Well, it boots fine, I can login to GNOME just fine, but there's no
> networking interface and the activity light on my router doesn't light
> up.
> 
> Also, on vt1 there's debugging info (starts with Mach 64) related to
> aftby (or something llike that... I think it's video related).
> 
> I've downgraded to kernel 2.6.9 and my server's happy again (& so am I).
> 
> Is there a problem with the latest (offical) YDL kernel on G3s?
> 
> Eric.
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