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hello, |
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I have a portable that has been working great. Now, the eth0 link |
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does not stay up. If I watch the system boot, all looks fine. |
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Looking at 'dmesg' the relevant entry are: |
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eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x2000, 00:90:f5:2b:cb:18, IRQ 11 |
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eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/1839D' |
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<snip> |
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[drm] Setting GART locaatoin based on new memory map |
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[drm] Loading R200 Microcode |
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[drm] writeback test succeded in 1 usecs |
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'eth0: link down' |
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I do not think that 'drm has anything to do with this, but I do not |
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remember it in my dmesg before on this system. Perhaps updateding |
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something on the windows side (corrupted the bios?)...... |
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I've rebuild the kernel and the realtek driver is built into the kernel. |
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etho, the built in realtek chips has always worked before. I keep |
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several older kernels around and |
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ready to use in grub.conf. They all suffer the same problem. |
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ifconfig -a and netstat -nr look normal (similar to other workstations |
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on the same ethernet segment). |
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I've double check /etc/conf.d/ and /etc/init.d/ and all of the files |
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and links are correct. |
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I have notice that /etc/init.d/net.lo got upgraded during an routine |
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'emerge -uDNvp world' (no I did not save the older version) |
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but, I'm hoping that's not the problem. |
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I know the ethernet chip is good because the portable works fine |
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booted into windows2K. I have switched ethernet cables with a known good |
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cable and that is not the problem either. |
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Any ideas or suggestions are most welcome. |
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James |
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