Bug#538410: [stable] atl1c: ethernet broken on Eee PC model 1005HA-H
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:37:32PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:58:36PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:39:55PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > > Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686
> > > Version: 2.6.30-3
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > When using a debian-installer daily image on an Eee PC model 1005HA-H, to which
> > > Otavio just added atl1c, our tester, Yoda-BZH on irc, could not get ethernet to
> > > work at all. Here is his report:
> > >
> > > > debian-installer/i386/linux vga=771 initrd=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz -- quiet
> > >
> > > Choosing language French
> > > Country: France
> > > KB Layout: Françs (fr-latin9)
> > >
> > > At this point I have few lines about atl1c in dmesg :
> > > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> > > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> > > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: PME# disabled
> > > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: PME# disabled
> > > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: version 1.0.0.1-NAPI
> > >
> > > ** detecting hardware step
> > > In dmesg I now have :
> > > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
> > > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: alt1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
> > > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: Unable to allocate MSI interrupt Error: -22
> > > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> > >
> > > At this point, dhcp fails to acquire an address. Statically configuring the
> > > network doesn't help, either.
> > >
> > > Searching Linus's git tree reveals that there have been some patches to atl1c
> > > since 2.6.30 was released, but we don't know if any of these are relevant to
> > > our problem or not:
> > >
> > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=atl1c
> > >
> > > I find it annoying that at least this bug appears to be a duplicate of an atl1e
> > > bug fixed a year ago:
> > >
> > > In atl1c this year, after 2.6.30 was released:
> > >
> > > atl1c: WAKE_MCAST tested twice, not WAKE_UCAST
> > >
> > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ed586d075ef65c0268982e5b7f36d0ffaa95547
> > >
> > > In atl1e last year, submitted by the same upstream author!
> > >
> > > atl1e: WAKE_MCAST 2x. 1st WAKE_UCAST?
> > >
> > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1a3c4bc61547e5a75fd3b85b425624756da4cffb
> > >
> > > Do you need any more info to patch 2.6.30's atl1c for us? We'd like to get
> > > ethernet working on this model as soon as possible.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ben Armstrong, debian-eeepc project leader
> >
> > Hi Ben,
> > could you (or "Yoda BSH") test that applying 0ed586d075ef65c0268982e5b7f36d0ffaa95547
> > on top of 2.6.30 fixes support for atl1c? If so, the best way to proceed would be to
> > mail stable@kernel.org so that the fix is picked up for the kernel stable update
> > (2.6.30.4 or .5). In that case it will land in sid rather quickly and users of the
> > stock upstream kernel benefit as well.
>
> Greg,
> this concerns the Debian bug report
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538410 on the atl1c driver:
>
> Please merge the following commits into the stable tree for 2.6.30:
>
> 0ed586d075ef65c0268982e5b7f36d0ffaa95547
> c5ad4f592e27d782faea0a787d9181f192a69ef0
> 37b76c697f4ac082e9923dfa8e8aecc8bc54a8e1
>
> Tristan Charbonneau confirmed that these fixes - as present in 2.6.31-rc4 -
> fixes the problem on his hardware.
All queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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