Ok, this is kind of strange. Thought I'd throw it out here first before I took it to the factory list, or submitted a bug... mainly because I'm not sure what's going on yet. Long story..... I installed the 10.2 Beta 1 last night, and right about the time the NIC was ID-ed and the driver loaded, the NIC "switched off". Don't really know how else to describe it. The NIC light went out, and the router it's connected too no longer had a light indicating an active NIC connected. At first I figured it was just an issue with 10.2 Beta 1... so I booted back to 10.1. No network, and the NIC is still off. I booted to WInXP, and no NIC there either. Rebooted the router... no fix. Changed cables, and changed router connections... still no network, and NIC is "off". I left it was it was overnight, and started tinkering again this morning. Restarted the computer from a cold start, and immediately had a network connection in 10.1. Booted to 10.2 Beta 1 and had network. The network worked fine on all OS-es I booted to this morning. This afternoon I decided to reinstall 10.2 Beta 1 to try out a few other options etc. The install worked ad passed the NIC ID and config section. I rolled the install back to a section before the NIC was configured, and did the NIC config again... this time the NIC "turned off" and again I had no network connectivity in any OS I booted to. I tried all variations on the cabling (in case it was a bad cable) including connecting direct to the cable modem, and had no connectivity... no lights on the NIC at all. I shut the computer down completely, and did a cold start - no NIC. Went into the BIOS, disabled the onboard card, saved, cold start, back into the BIOS, and re-enabled the NIC... and it's working again. A little more tinkering, basically reconfiguring the NIC in 10.2 and the 3rd try at it and the NIC "switched off" again. Repeat the whole cold start and BIOS tinkering again (as this seems to be the only thing that will wake up the card) and it starts working again. It is stable now through multiple restarts, and multiple OS-es (10.1, 10.2 Beta 1 and WinXP) as long as i don't try to configure it in 10.2. Nothing I can see in the logs etc that would indicate a problem. The NIC is an onboard ASRock In M5263 using the uli526x driver/module. (ID-ed the same on both 10.1 and 10.2). So.. after all that is there anything anyone can think of for the cause of this odd problem? I've triple checked the hardware and it seems fine. It fails ONLY when i attempt to (re)configure the NIC in 10.2 Beta 1, and then not every time. It does not fail if I reconfigure the card in WinXP or in 10.1. Could it be something in 10.2 Beta 1? Any ideas? C.
This warrants an official bug report IMHO.. You might google around and find the maintainer and send him some email. I'd probably go get a cheap nic in the meantime and disable that one. On Saturday 28 October 2006 09:19, Clayton wrote:
Ok, this is kind of strange. Thought I'd throw it out here first before I took it to the factory list, or submitted a bug... mainly because I'm not sure what's going on yet.
Long story.....
I installed the 10.2 Beta 1 last night, and right about the time the NIC was ID-ed and the driver loaded, the NIC "switched off". Don't really know how else to describe it. The NIC light went out, and the router it's connected too no longer had a light indicating an active NIC connected.
At first I figured it was just an issue with 10.2 Beta 1... so I booted back to 10.1. No network, and the NIC is still off. I booted to WInXP, and no NIC there either. Rebooted the router... no fix. Changed cables, and changed router connections... still no network, and NIC is "off".
I left it was it was overnight, and started tinkering again this morning. Restarted the computer from a cold start, and immediately had a network connection in 10.1. Booted to 10.2 Beta 1 and had network. The network worked fine on all OS-es I booted to this morning.
This afternoon I decided to reinstall 10.2 Beta 1 to try out a few other options etc. The install worked ad passed the NIC ID and config section. I rolled the install back to a section before the NIC was configured, and did the NIC config again... this time the NIC "turned off" and again I had no network connectivity in any OS I booted to. I tried all variations on the cabling (in case it was a bad cable) including connecting direct to the cable modem, and had no connectivity... no lights on the NIC at all.
I shut the computer down completely, and did a cold start - no NIC. Went into the BIOS, disabled the onboard card, saved, cold start, back into the BIOS, and re-enabled the NIC... and it's working again.
A little more tinkering, basically reconfiguring the NIC in 10.2 and the 3rd try at it and the NIC "switched off" again. Repeat the whole cold start and BIOS tinkering again (as this seems to be the only thing that will wake up the card) and it starts working again.
It is stable now through multiple restarts, and multiple OS-es (10.1, 10.2 Beta 1 and WinXP) as long as i don't try to configure it in 10.2. Nothing I can see in the logs etc that would indicate a problem.
The NIC is an onboard ASRock In M5263 using the uli526x driver/module. (ID-ed the same on both 10.1 and 10.2).
So.. after all that is there anything anyone can think of for the cause of this odd problem? I've triple checked the hardware and it seems fine. It fails ONLY when i attempt to (re)configure the NIC in 10.2 Beta 1, and then not every time. It does not fail if I reconfigure the card in WinXP or in 10.1.
Could it be something in 10.2 Beta 1? Any ideas?
C.
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Clayton wrote:
Ok, this is kind of strange. Thought I'd throw it out here first before I took it to the factory list, or submitted a bug... mainly because I'm not sure what's going on yet.
Long story.....
I installed the 10.2 Beta 1 last night, and right about the time the
Don't forget that 10.2 is using the new 2.6.18 kernel. Might have something to do with it? Cheers. -- I'm dangerous when I know what I'm doing.
Don't forget that 10.2 is using the new 2.6.18 kernel. Might have something to do with it?
That's possible... although odd that the kernel/driver would be able to turn off a NIC and have it persist over to other OS-es and through reboots etc. I've dropped in a spare Realtek NIC, and will see if I can duplicate the problem with that NIC instead of the onboard... Realtek cards are well supported in Linux in general.... C. .
On Saturday 28 October 2006 23:19, Clayton wrote:
That's possible... although odd that the kernel/driver would be able to turn off a NIC and have it persist over to other OS-es and through reboots etc.
No, not that odd. Lots of nics (including some realtecs and 3com) have the ability to have their irq and port addresses set (usually with an install utility). Those settings persist across boot. This was said to be an improvement over jumpers. I could always find a screw driver to get the case off and change the jumpers but I could never find that goddamned setup disk. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-10-28 at 23:26 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
Lots of nics (including some realtecs and 3com) have the ability to have their irq and port addresses set (usually with an install utility). Those settings persist across boot.
This was said to be an improvement over jumpers. I could always find a screw driver to get the case off and change the jumpers but I could never find that goddamned setup disk.
I did, years ago. It was a dos floppy that came in the box. You know, you bought the card in a nice card box, with the card protected by antistatic foam and plastic bag, with instructions and a disquete. O tempora! You probably can download it somewhere from the manufacturer, nowdays. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFRQlltTMYHG2NR9URAlj3AJ4iRReRQicuL03ok4cvricvffzOuQCbBMpu Js9JIXHFZ9hOZroLutcvCNc= =RLQe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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