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Very interesting. We are using the same mobo, but in my case, 2.6.13 |
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works fine, 2.6.11 (hardened) is having the problem. I also tried both |
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drivers. |
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Kevin |
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Drake Donahue wrote: |
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> New installs of kernel-2.6.13-r3 were delinking the marvell yukon nic |
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> builtin to my asus a8v deluxe last week. This occurred during first |
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> boot of the newly installed kernel with the skge driver built in. The |
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> nic was present and apparently functional in ifconfig but the link |
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> light was out. The condition persisted through subsequent reboots of |
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> kernel-2.6.13-r3 and boot into Windows XP (dual boot machine). |
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> Correction required clearing CMOS. After cleaning up the CMOS the nic |
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> returned to operation. Recompiled kernel-2.6.13-r3 with sklin(the |
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> deprecated proprietary driver) and skge(the open source recommended |
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> driver) as modules. This allowed me to see that the link light |
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> extinguished simultaneously with autoload of skge. Lost interest and |
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> did not reload the kernel to observe sklin operation as a module. If |
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> your board has via bios as mine does ... |
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin N. Carpenter" |
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> <kevinc@××××××××.org> |
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> To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o> |
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> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 8:26 PM |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] hardened-sources |
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>> Hi all - |
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>> |
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>> Got a funny one that has cost me a few hours of wondering, followed |
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>> by enlightenment, followed by more wondering... Not sure this is an |
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>> AMD64 issue or a kernel issue, but since I'm subscribed here, thought |
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>> I'd start here. |
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>> I started my newly rebuilt system on gentoo-sources 2.6.13, but since |
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>> this is a firewall machine, I opted to go with hardened-sources |
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>> 2.6.11. Quickly found out that GRSecurity level "high" caused startup |
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>> errors with INIT, but "medium" seemed to work fine. However, for the |
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>> life of me, I couldn't get DHCPD to respond to request for IP |
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>> addressed. No dmesg complaint, nothing in the log files, no network |
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>> activity... the last was the key. I'm using the builtin Marvel |
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>> gigabit on my Asus motherboard. Eventually I realized I couldn't do |
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>> anything out that port, although ifconfig showed it up. A bit more |
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>> looking showed the lack of a link-light. Tried swapping cables, |
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>> ports, etc. - no go. Eventually booted back to 2.6.13 (non-hardened |
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>> source tree) and the port works fine! I noticed the LiveCD is 2.6.12, |
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>> and the port works there as well (which kept me from going completely |
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>> insane and replacing the motherboard. Once it worked on LiveCD I |
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>> realized I had a kernel problem.) |
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>> So... does anyone know if this is a 2.6.11 issue, and AMD-64 issue, |
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>> or a general hardened-sources issues? |
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>> Thanks! |
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>> Kevin (running unhardened 2.6.13 for now...) |
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