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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 boot of |
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the newly installed kernel with the skge driver built in. The nic was |
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present and apparently functional in ifconfig but the link light was out. |
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The condition persisted through subsequent reboots of kernel-2.6.13-r3 and |
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boot into Windows XP (dual boot machine). Correction required clearing CMOS. |
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After cleaning up the CMOS the nic returned to operation. Recompiled |
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kernel-2.6.13-r3 with sklin(the deprecated proprietary driver) and skge(the |
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open source recommended driver) as modules. This allowed me to see that the |
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link light extinguished simultaneously with autoload of skge. Lost interest |
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and 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 ----- |
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From: "Kevin N. Carpenter" <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 by |
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> enlightenment, followed by more wondering... Not sure this is an AMD64 |
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> issue or a kernel issue, but since I'm subscribed here, thought I'd start |
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> here. |
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> |
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> I started my newly rebuilt system on gentoo-sources 2.6.13, but since this |
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> is a firewall machine, I opted to go with hardened-sources 2.6.11. |
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> Quickly found out that GRSecurity level "high" caused startup errors with |
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> INIT, but "medium" seemed to work fine. However, for the life of me, I |
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> couldn't get DHCPD to respond to request for IP addressed. No dmesg |
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> complaint, nothing in the log files, no network activity... the last was |
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> the key. I'm using the builtin Marvel gigabit on my Asus motherboard. |
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> Eventually I realized I couldn't do anything out that port, although |
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> ifconfig showed it up. A bit more looking showed the lack of a |
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> link-light. Tried swapping cables, ports, etc. - no go. Eventually |
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> booted back to 2.6.13 (non-hardened source tree) and the port works fine! |
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> I noticed the LiveCD is 2.6.12, and the port works there as well (which |
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> kept me from going completely insane and replacing the motherboard. Once |
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> it worked on LiveCD I 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, or a |
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> 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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