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Bug#534593: marked as done (linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64: NVIDIA PXE bootloader fails with PXE-E61 error after install)



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Package: linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64
Version: 2.6.29-5
Severity: important

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I am having some troubles with PXE booting our servers that are running fully up to date Debian Squeeze/Sid. The servers have AMD Opteron 1218 on a supermicro H8SMU motherboard using the nVidia MCP55 Pro chipset. The problem I am running into is that after Squeeze/Sid has been installed, on reboots of the machine, the nVidia PXE bootloader fails to start, giving the error message: "PXE-E61: Media test failure check cable".

Going into the BIOS screen on boot and clearing the NVRAM or changing a setting and saving will correct the problem for the next boot. However, on a subsequent reboot the same error occurs. Also, rebooting after the PXE failure at the GRUB screen will also cause PXE booting to happen normally until Debian Squeeze/Sid fully boots up.

The netbooting error does not occur with Debian 4.0, Debian 5.0, nor many other linux distributions.


-- Package-specific info:
** Version:
Linux version 2.6.29-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.29-5) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Debian 4.3.3-10) ) #1 SMP Sun May 17 17:15:47 UTC 2009

** Command line:
ro root=/dev/sda1 root=/dev/sda1  ro quiet

** Not tainted

** Kernel log:
[ 0.884806] sata_nv 0000:00:05.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LSA0] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[    0.884808] sata_nv 0000:00:05.0: Using SWNCQ mode
[    0.884867] sata_nv 0000:00:05.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    0.885006] scsi0 : sata_nv
[    0.896293] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
[    0.896423] scsi1 : sata_nv
[ 0.896587] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xd480 ctl 0xd400 bmdma 0xcc00 irq 20 [ 0.896589] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xd080 ctl 0xd000 bmdma 0xcc08 irq 20
[    0.908853] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[    1.776032] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[    1.811487] ata1.00: ATA-8: ST3320613AS, CC2F, max UDMA/133
[ 1.811490] ata1.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[    1.867488] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[    1.867530] isa bounce pool size: 16 pages
[ 1.867599] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3320613AS CC2F PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    2.598197] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[    2.598226] amd74xx 0000:00:04.0: UDMA133 controller
[ 2.598229] amd74xx 0000:00:04.0: IDE controller (0x10de:0x036e rev 0xa1)
[    2.598244] amd74xx 0000:00:04.0: IDE port disabled
[ 2.598255] amd74xx 0000:00:04.0: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[    2.598259]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7
[    2.598264] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[    3.612084] hdb: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8178, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[    3.668034] hdb: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
[ 3.668288] hdb: host side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33
[    3.668290] hdb: UDMA/33 mode selected
[    3.668565] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[    3.671511] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB0] enabled at IRQ 23
[ 3.671515] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LUB0] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[    3.671544] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    3.671547] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: OHCI Host Controller
[ 3.671621] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[    3.671634] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: irq 23, io mem 0xfeafb000
[ 3.726014] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001 [ 3.726016] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[    3.726018] usb usb2: Product: OHCI Host Controller
[    3.726020] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 ohci_hcd
[    3.726021] usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:02.0
[    3.726065] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[    3.726090] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    3.726097] hub 2-0:1.0: 10 ports detected
[    3.726471] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSA1] enabled at IRQ 22
[ 3.726473] sata_nv 0000:00:05.1: PCI INT B -> Link[LSA1] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[    3.726475] sata_nv 0000:00:05.1: Using SWNCQ mode
[    3.726525] sata_nv 0000:00:05.1: setting latency timer to 64
[    3.726644] scsi2 : sata_nv
[    3.726702] scsi3 : sata_nv
[ 3.726824] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xc880 ctl 0xc800 bmdma 0xc080 irq 22 [ 3.726827] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xc480 ctl 0xc400 bmdma 0xc088 irq 22 [ 4.100014] usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[    4.316026] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=00cb
[ 4.316029] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[    4.316032] usb 2-2: Product: Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0
[    4.316033] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Microsoft
[    4.316096] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[    4.326254] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 4.332253] input: Microsoft Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input2 [ 4.341056] generic-usb 0003:045E:00CB.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0 ] on usb-0000:00:02.0-2/input0
[    4.341076] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    4.341079] usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[    4.458200] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[    5.190194] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[    5.196970] ide-cd driver 5.00
[    5.197549] ide-cd: hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
[    5.197553] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[    5.296185] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[ 5.296288] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB)
[    5.296302] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    5.296304] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 5.296323] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 5.296376] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320 GB/298 GiB)
[    5.296386] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    5.296388] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 5.296405] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    5.296409]  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
[    5.338866] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    5.397564] PM: Starting manual resume from disk
[    5.463119] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[    5.463128] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   14.156687] udev: starting version 141
[ 28.433840] input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input3
[   28.441134] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[ 28.441243] input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input4
[   28.449123] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[   28.766572] i2c-adapter i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x2d00
[   28.766589] i2c-adapter i2c-1: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x2e00
[ 28.944498] k8temp 0000:00:18.3: Temperature readouts might be wrong - check erratum #141
[   29.274190] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input5
[   29.330627] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...
[ 30.424987] Adding 20244412k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:20244412k
[   30.561471] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
[   31.457547] loop: module loaded
[   32.132177]   alloc irq_desc for 30 on cpu 0 node 0
[   32.132180]   alloc kstat_irqs on cpu 0 node 0
[   32.132189] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X
[   35.799212] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[   35.799215] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[   37.166622] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   37.167196] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[   47.612011] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

** Loaded modules:
Module                  Size  Used by
autofs4                26728  1
ipv6                  283776  12
nfs                   250560  2
lockd                  67924  1 nfs
nfs_acl                 3232  1 nfs
auth_rpcgss            40768  1 nfs
sunrpc                194936  13 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss
loop                   15292  0
snd_pcsp               10652  0
serio_raw               5780  0
snd_pcm                78776  1 snd_pcsp
snd_timer              22240  1 snd_pcm
snd                    63192  3 snd_pcsp,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7984  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9776  1 snd_pcm
k8temp                  5008  0
psmouse                41532  0
i2c_nforce2             7400  0
i2c_core               25168  1 i2c_nforce2
evdev                  10496  3
button                  7280  0
ext3                  122528  1
jbd                    50232  1 ext3
mbcache                 9140  1 ext3
sd_mod                 32632  3
crc_t10dif              2064  1 sd_mod
ide_cd_mod             30192  0
cdrom                  33592  1 ide_cd_mod
ide_pci_generic         4628  0
usbhid                 34176  0
hid                    40928  1 usbhid
ata_generic             5876  0
ohci_hcd               23036  0
amd74xx                 6840  0
ide_core              108788  3 ide_cd_mod,ide_pci_generic,amd74xx
sata_nv                24840  2
forcedeth              52336  0
libata                172716  2 ata_generic,sata_nv
scsi_mod              158880  2 sd_mod,libata
ehci_hcd               33916  0
thermal                18864  0
processor              45400  1 thermal
fan                     5304  0
thermal_sys            13104  3 thermal,processor,fan

** PCI devices:
00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller [10de:0369] (rev a2)
  Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device [15d9:2011]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0
  Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge [10de:0364] (rev a3)
  Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device [15d9:2011]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0

00:01.1 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus [10de:0368] (rev a3)
  Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device [15d9:2011]
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
  Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=64]
  Region 4: I/O ports at 2d00 [size=64]
  Region 5: I/O ports at 2e00 [size=64]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: nForce2_smbus

00:02.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller [10de:036c] (rev a1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
  Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device [15d9:2011]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max)
  Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
  Region 0: Memory at feafb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:02.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller [10de:036d] (rev a2) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
  Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device [15d9:2011]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max)
  Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 23
  Region 0: Memory at feafac00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:04.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE [10de:036e] (rev a1) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
  Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device [15d9:2011]
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max)
Region 0: [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] Region 1: [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] Region 2: [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] Region 3: [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
  Region 4: I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: AMD_IDE

00:05.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller [10de:037f] (rev a3) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
  Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device [15d9:2011]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max)
  Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
  Region 0: I/O ports at d480 [size=8]
  Region 1: I/O ports at d400 [size=4]
  Region 2: I/O ports at d080 [size=8]
  Region 3: I/O ports at d000 [size=4]
  Region 4: I/O ports at cc00 [size=16]
  Region 5: Memory at feaf9000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: sata_nv

00:05.1 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller [10de:037f] (rev a3) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
  Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device [15d9:2011]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max)
  Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 22
  Region 0: I/O ports at c880 [size=8]
  Region 1: I/O ports at c800 [size=4]
  Region 2: I/O ports at c480 [size=8]
  Region 3: I/O ports at c400 [size=4]
  Region 4: I/O ports at c080 [size=16]
  Region 5: Memory at feaf8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: sata_nv

00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge [10de:0370] (rev a2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0
  Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
  I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
  Memory behind bridge: feb00000-febfffff
  Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
  BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
      PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr+ DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
  Capabilities: <access denied>

00:08.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet [10de:0373] (rev a3)
  Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device [15d9:2011]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0 (250ns min, 5000ns max)
  Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 30
  Region 0: Memory at feaf7000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
  Region 1: I/O ports at c000 [size=8]
  Region 2: Memory at feafa800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
  Region 3: Memory at feafa400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: forcedeth

00:09.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet [10de:0373] (rev a3)
  Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device [15d9:2011]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0 (250ns min, 5000ns max)
  Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
  Region 0: Memory at feaf6000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
  Region 1: I/O ports at bc00 [size=8]
  Region 2: Memory at feafa000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
  Region 3: Memory at feaf5c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: forcedeth

00:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge [10de:0376] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
  Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
  BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
      PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:0b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge [10de:0374] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
  Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
  BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
      PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:0c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge [10de:0374] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
  Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
  BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
      PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:0d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge [10de:0378] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
  Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
  BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
      PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:0e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge [10de:0375] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
  Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
  BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
      PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:0f.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge [10de:0377] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
  Bus: primary=00, secondary=07, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
  BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
      PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100] Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101] Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-

00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102] Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-

00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103] Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: k8temp

01:06.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 [1002:515e] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device [15d9:2011]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 64 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
  Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
  Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
  Region 1: I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
  Region 2: Memory at febf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
  Expansion ROM at feb00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
  Capabilities: <access denied>



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.93.2 tools for generating an initramfs ii module-init-tools 3.7-pre9-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64 suggests:
ii grub 0.97-53 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn  linux-doc-2.6.29              <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/preinst/abort-install-2.6.29-2-amd64:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.29-2-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.29-2-amd64:

linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.29-2-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.29-2-amd64: true

linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.29-2-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.29-2-amd64: true

linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.29-2-amd64: true

linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.29-2-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/preinst/initrd-2.6.29-2-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.29-2-amd64: false
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.29-2-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.29-2-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.29-2-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.29-2-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.29-2-amd64: true

linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.29-2-amd64: false
linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.29-2-amd64:



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Version: 2.6.30-1

Geoff, that's good news.

My guess was that this fixed it:

commit 5a9a8e32ebe269c71d8d3e78f9435fe7729f38e9
Author: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 2 00:19:52 2009 -0700

    forcedeth: add phy_power_down parameter, leave phy powered up by
    default (v2)
    
    Add a phy_power_down parameter to forcedeth: set to 1 to power
    down the phy and disable the link when an interface goes down; set
    to 0 to always leave the phy powered up.
    
    The phy power state persists across reboots; Windows, some BIOSes,
    and older versions of Linux don't bother to power up the phy again,
    forcing users to remove all power to get the interface working (see
    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13072).  Leaving the
    phy powered on is the safest default behavior.  Users accustomed to
    seeing the link state reflect the interface state and/or wanting to
    minimize power consumption can set phy_power_down=1 if
    compatibility with other OSes is not an issue.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


-- 
dann frazier



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