Re: nForce2 ethernet not working after dist-upgrade to lenny
doh! my bad, I was limiting the number of dhcp connections allowed, server side. All's well.
thanks
--- On Mon, 3/16/09, david wright- [白熊] <david_v_wright@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: david wright- [白熊] <david_v_wright@yahoo.com>
> Subject: nForce2 ethernet not working after dist-upgrade to lenny
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: "david wright" <david_v_wright@yahoo.com>
> Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 1:48 AM
>
> Hello,
>
> Saturday I did a dist-upgrade from etch (2.6.18 kernel) to
> lenny, it appeared successful, even after several reboots,
> however as of today, I have no network connection. (the
> network itself is fine, this is sent from another box on the
> same switch)
>
> The debian box in question is a AMD with an Asus A7N8X
> board and kernel 2.6.26 (from dist-upgrade)
>
>
> [dwright@debian dwright]$ dmesg
> [ 131.968012] eth2: no IPv6 routers present
> (now obsolete) site-local IPv6
> ... (truncated)
> Mar 8 12:36:10 debian kernel: [
> 3.712572] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet
> driver. Version 0.61.
> Mar 8 12:36:10 debian kernel: [
> 3.713135] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] enabled at IRQ 22
> Mar 8 12:36:10 debian kernel: [
> 3.713198] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> Link
> [APCH] -> GSI 22 (level, high) -> IRQ 22
> Mar 8 12:36:10 debian kernel: [
> 4.232807] forcedeth 0000:00:04.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732
> @ 1, addr 00:0c:6e:d9:74:8d
> Mar 8 12:36:10 debian kernel: [
> 4.232888] forcedeth 0000:00:04.0: timirq lnktim desc-v1
> ... (truncated)
> Mar 8 12:36:10 debian kernel: [
> 4.382647] udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth2
> Mar 8 12:36:10 debian kernel: [
> 4.426656] udev: renamed network interface eth0_rename to
> eth1
> ... (truncated)
> Mar 8 12:36:10 debian kernel:
> [ 54.036631] eth2: setting
> full-duplex.
>
>
> [dwright@debian dwright]$ sudo /sbin/ifconfig eth2
> eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
> 00:26:54:13:be:fb
> inet6 addr:
> fe80::226:54ff:fe13:befb/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING
> MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:267 errors:0
> dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
> TX packets:30 errors:0
> dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
> txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:52583 (51.3
> KiB) TX bytes:7981 (7.7 KiB)
> Interrupt:20 Base
> address:0xe000
>
>
> [dwright@debian dwright]$ sudo lspci -v
> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2
> Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7N8X
> Mainboard onboard nForce2 Ethernet
> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel,
> latency 0, IRQ 22
> Memory at e2086000 (32-bit,
> non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> I/O ports at e400 [size=8]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management
> version 2
> Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
> Kernel modules: forcedeth
>
>
> (there is also a 3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB, which never
> worked)
>
> lsmod shows the forcedeth but shows it is unused, i.e. 0
>
> Again, this is after a 'straight' sudo dist-upgrade.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
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