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On Monday 12 November 2007, Fabio wrote: |
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> Thank you very much Peter. This is my ethernet card: |
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> 82557/8/9 Ethernet pro 100 |
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There are two ethernet cards in your machine, as evidenced by the error |
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message "eth1: PHY reset until link up". Enumeration starts at eth0, then |
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eth1, etc. What is the other? |
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The card you list is supported by the eepro100 kernel module. That module |
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nowhere mentions the error you are receiving. The only modules that do are |
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sis190 and r8169: |
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sis190.c: net_link(tp, KERN_WARNING "%s: PHY reset until link up.\n", |
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r8169.c: printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: PHY reset until link up\n", dev->name); |
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Take note of the punctuation of the above messages. If indeed you have quoted |
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the error message correctly, it would indicate that you have a r8169-based |
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card in your machine. |
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Does any other live-cds boot for you? If yes, post the output of the following |
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commands: |
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lspci |
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lspci -n |
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ifconfig |
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lsmod |
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> I downloaded the latest cd minimal installation image for amd64. |
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> So what do you suggest me to do? |
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By latest minimal installation image, do you |
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mean "install-amd64-minimal-2007.0.iso" as available from: |
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http://mirror.ing.unibo.it/gentoo/releases/amd64/2007.0/installcd/install-amd64-minimal-2007.0.iso |
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? |
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The reason I'm making doubly sure that it is indeed the latest live-cd, is |
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that the last time the "PHY reset until link up" error led to failures such |
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as yours was many kernel revisions ago. |
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That being said, there are some known problems with the r8169-based cards. For |
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one, they will retain state when you reboot from windows. To test if that is |
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what is causing this, power off your machine and pull the plug, wait 1 |
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minute, re-insert power cord and boot. |
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Also, the bug at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6807 has some of |
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the characteristics you describe. It was hopefully fixed in kernel 2.6.23. |
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You could try to install Gentoo from a 2.6.23-based livecd such as paldo at: |
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http://www.paldo.org/ |
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The iso is at: |
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http://www.paldo.org/paldo-live-cd-x86_64-stable.iso |
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Gentoo only needs very few tools to be installed and most live-cds provide |
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them. |
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/PA |
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