Re: linux-image-2.6.20-1-686 and sky2 module
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:37:06 -0700
Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote:
> I have been working on a Toshiba Tecra A4-S211 and have run across a
> problem in relation to the linux-image package in the title of this post
> and the Marvell 88E8036 NIC. The sky2 module is loaded according to
> lsmod, the system thinks the ethernet port is active as the lights
> actually blink on the physical port itself, but there isn't actually any
> traffic going in or out of the ethernet port.
>
> If I run ifup the dhcp discover packets are sent according to the
> messages printed in the bash shell, but nothing is actually sent over
> the network. The dhcp server sees no packets (I am sniffing traffice on
> it using Wireshark during the test), and after the default number of
> timeouts is reached the dhcp client says there was no response. Running
> ifup at this point I receive a message saying that eth1 is already
> configured. Running ifdown I get errors saying the network is not
> reachable.
>
> If I boot back into 2.6.18-4-686 the card works normally and acquires an
> IP address from the dhcp server.
>
> The entire installation is Etch except for the 2.6.20-1-686 kernel as I
> installed it to try to solve the ACPI problems and ATA hardware
> recognition problems I was having with the 2.6.18-4-686 kernel. It does
> solve the problem of the time outs in recognizing one of the ATA devices
> and the shutdown problems I was having, but no networking capability at
> all is rather severe price to pay for fixing those to irritating but
> relatively minor annoyances.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Oh, one possible wild card in the issue is I have vmware-server
> installed on this machine and use bridged networking with it. I've
> Googled to see if there are any known reasons why this would create a
> networking problem for the host if I hadn't reconfigured vmware
> networking for this kernel yet but couldn't find anything on it.
I'm actually seeing something similar with my Broadcom 4318 AirForce
One wireless card using the bcm43xx driver. With 2.6.18-4-686 (stock
debian or self-rolled), dhcp works. With 2.6.20-2 (self-rolled from
'linux-source-...'), dhcp doesn't work. I also see the DHCPDISCOVER
messages but no response from the server (I haven't sniffed the ether
for packets). OTOH, using ndiswrapper on the same card does work for me
even with 2.6.20. I have no idea if our problems are related.
Celejar
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