Bug#598119: Same behaviour with actual squeeze installer
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 09:10:21PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
> Hi Bernhard,
>
> this is quite puzzling, digging a bit more in the syslog you provided:
>
> Oct 25 14:11:17 kernel: [ 85.468831] tg3 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting
> tigon/tg3_tso5.bin
> Oct 25 14:11:17 kernel: [ 85.470798] eth0: Failed to load firmware
> "tigon/tg3_tso5.bin"
> Oct 25 14:11:17 kernel: [ 85.470801] eth0: TSO capability disabled.
> Oct 25 14:11:17 kernel: [ 85.598661] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not
> ready
> Oct 25 14:11:19 kernel: [ 87.151448] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full
> duplex.
> Oct 25 14:11:19 kernel: [ 87.151452] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX
> and on for RX.
> Oct 25 14:11:19 kernel: [ 87.151495] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link
> becomes ready
> Oct 25 14:11:21 udhcpc: Got IP 192.168.178.26 (using eth0) and routing through
> 192.168.178.1
> Oct 25 14:11:23 netcfg[7285]: INFO: DHCP hostname: "RBG-NB"
> Oct 25 14:11:23 netcfg[7285]: INFO: Detected eth0 as a hotpluggable device
> Oct 25 14:11:23 main-menu[354]: (process:7284): udhcpc (v1.17.1) started
> Oct 25 14:11:23 main-menu[354]: (process:7284): Sending discover...
> Oct 25 14:11:23 main-menu[354]: (process:7284): Sending discover...
> Oct 25 14:11:23 main-menu[354]: (process:7284): Sending select for
> 192.168.178.26...
>
> I confess that after seeing the complains on the missing fw for both devices,
> if one was set up it should be firewire.
> But no, it seems you still have wired network even without firwmare.
>
> Anyone?
Well going by what the kernel says (or the driver I guess) it would
appear that it works without firmware, but you don't get any of the
offloading capabilities.
Now if there are issues with udhcpc, I vaguely recall reading that it does
NOT handle renewing and that if your dhcp server hands out an address for
a short time or you loose the link temporarily or something like that, you
may loose your address and it won't come back by itself. The idea seems
to be that an install never takes long enough for that to be a problem.
--
Len Sorensen
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