On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 13:39 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 > Version: 2.6.30-3 > Severity: normal > > When using a debian-installer daily image on an Eee PC model 1005HA-H, to > which > Otavio just added atl1c, our tester, Yoda-BZH on irc, could not get ethernet > to > work at all. Here is his report: > > > debian-installer/i386/linux vga=771 > initrd=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz -- quiet > > Choosing language French > Country: France > KB Layout: Françs (fr-latin9) > > At this point I have few lines about atl1c in dmesg : > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: PME# disabled > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: PME# disabled > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: version 1.0.0.1-NAPI > > > ** detecting hardware step > In dmesg I now have : > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: alt1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex> > atl1c 0000:01:00.0: Unable to allocate MSI interrupt Error: -22 > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready > > At this point, dhcp fails to acquire an address. Statically configuring the > network doesn't help, either.
It looks like the driver is somehow reporting link state correctly - the PHY shows link up but the kernel sees the link down. I seem to remember that there was a recent change that broke some other drivers that were not doing this quite right; I will check that. > Searching Linus's git tree reveals that there have been some patches to atl1c > since 2.6.30 was released, but we don't know if any of these are relevant to > our problem or not: [...] These don't look like they would address the problem, but perhaps you could try a kernel with these changes anyway? There are experimental packages linked from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel (see the first entry under "snapshots"). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy 1981-1987
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