Approx a week ago, I got a new computer, AMD64 on a K8 Triton Gigabyte
Triton Nforce 4 motherboard. Today, ethernet stopped functioning. I
couldn't even get it to work with the Gentoo minimal install CD. It was
running OK the past week with...
"<*> Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)" built
into the kernel (would be forcedeth as a module). I looks like it has
died on me. My old backup machine, hooked up to the same 4-port
ADSL-modem/router connects to the net just fine. I swapped the ethernet
cables to check if it was a bad router port or cable. The old machine
works, the new one doesn't. "m3000" is the machine's hostname. The
following message shows up in my logs (and on tty12) when I try to
access a web site...
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Sep 4 11:47:31 m3000 nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy<7>eth0:
tx_timeout: dead entries!
lspci -vv shows the following...
0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a2)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device e000
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0 (250ns min, 5000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at ea104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 1: I/O ports at e000 [size=8]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable+ DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
It's Sunday afternoon, and tomorrow's a holiday. Any last-minute ideas
or tweaks before I take it back to the shop on Tuesday?
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Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
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