Re: NSLU2 network interface missing after reboot
Hi Jonas
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 16:17, Jonas Häggqvist <rasher@rasher.dk> wrote:
> After a reboot of my NSLU2, the network interface fails to appear. By
> looking at /var/log/dmesg*, I notice the following two lines in older
> logs, which are not there in the latest:
>
> [ 34.570000] eth0: MII PHY 1 on NPE-B
> [ 61.530000] NPE-B: firmware functionality 0x0, revision 0x2:1
>
> I expect this to be the reason, or rather the symptom, but I have no idea
> how to fix this. The system has been rebooted a few times before this with
> no incident.
>
> The reboot was to run a fsck on my root file system, after having been
> unable to install new packages because of what I believe was some amount
> of file system corruption, so I assume this *might* be related, but I
> obviously don't know for sure.
>
> The file system is clean now, and /lost+found doesn't seem to contain
> anything interesting as far as I can tell.
>
> Running armel, Linux kernel 2.6.25-7
For some reason, the ixp4xx_eth module isn't being loaded. I'm not
sure why 2.6.25-7 isn't loading the module on your system, but I don't
think that it is worth investigating further because the latest kernel
in testing is 2.6.26-5 which does work. Can you try this kernel on
your system?
Gordon
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