Hello everyone,
I just aquired a new Lenovo G770 laptop and am having a strange issue
with
the Ethernet Controller.
Network connection works fine for a few minutes then dies. The
interface
is still configured though but it just stops working. There are no
error
messages in dmesg either.
My router is not a problem. Access is granted and it does work to
begin
with and the logs show nothing abnormal.
I've seen a few threads concering the G770 with Ubuntu but nothing
that
addresses this problem.
Output of ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Mask:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
inet6 addr: xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:3139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4773236 (4.5 MiB) TX bytes:457213 (446.4
KiB)
Interrupt:27
The output of lspic -v
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast
Ethernet (rev c1)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3979
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
Memory at d0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=256K]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable-
64bit+
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [6c] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [180] Device Serial Number
xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
Kernel driver in use: atl101:00.0
Anybody have an idea what could be happening with the Eternet
controller
and how I can fix it?
Another issue are the function keys. On my old Thinkpad, the
tpb package worked very well, however, that package isn't available
on
amd64. What other possibility is there to get the function keys to
work?
Thanks for any help!
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