Re: Network problem
Hi, I must admit, I don't know how to do some long iperf (internet performance??) tests... what exactly do you mean? I don't know what would be useful... regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:30:29 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: No probs perhaps stress test it with some long iperf tests ? Dean On 28/12/11 08:32, regexes wrote: Just to say... updating the kernel to 3.1.6 seems to have solved all of the issues. Thanks for the lead Dean! regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:29:43 +0100, regexes rege...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm... mine shows: blade:root:/var/log# modinfo atl1ce filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko version:1.0.0.2-NAPI license:GPL description:Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver author: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com srcversion: 8160DE57184B0C6C760D53E alias: pci:v1969d1073sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2060sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1063sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: vermagic: 2.6.32-5-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions Maybe a kernel upgrade would help... I guess I'll try that first. On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:00:19 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: here is the driver version in k3.1 root@astrotrain:/home/dean# modinfo atl1c filename: /lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko version:1.0.1.0-NAPI license:GPL description:Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver author: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com srcversion: 6B5B83F39487C00C3BF2E83 alias: pci:v1969d1083sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1073sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2060sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1063sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: intree: Y vermagic: 3.1.0-1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions If the version is the same in your kernel, its very unlikely that a kernel update will help. There doesnt appear to be any specific module options, so thats not something that can be explored. You can of course, email the driver author. They are almost always interested to know if a reproducible bug has been found. Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:24:44 +0100, regexes wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply... kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 Driver: atl1c I tried unloading and loading the driver but it didn't work though. I'll try some of your other suggestions. Maybe I'll find something. regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:59:46 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: The kernel may not be aware that something is wrong. Your email has garbled which driver is in use, could you please clarify and also which kernel version are you using? Some steps i suggest are... - see if traffic is leaving your machine (mirror ports, hubs or a cross over to another machine. then use tcpdump or wireshark) - try unloading and loading the driver, does it work again? - check what options are available for the driver, and play with any you might have - update your kernel some more exotic things to check... - check that iptables isnt being triggered by something? - it could be an irq conflict, especially if the card (or driver) doesnt play nicely with shared irqs. you may be able to clear the share by disabling an unused serial or parallel port - following from the above, you could change to polled rather than irq and see what happens. polling uses lots more cpu (ok thats an over simplification, it is better in some circumstances) - maybe your dns lease is expiring? Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:44:04 +0100, regexes wrote: Hello everyone, I just aquired a new Lenovo G770 laptop and am having a strange issue with the Ethernet Controller. Network connection works fine for a few minutes then dies. The interface is still configured though but it just stops working. There are no error messages in dmesg either. My router is not a problem. Access is granted and it does work to begin with and the logs show nothing abnormal. I've seen a few threads concering the G770 with Ubuntu but nothing that addresses this problem. Output of ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx inet6 addr: :::::/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4773236 (4.5 MiB) TX bytes:457213 (446.4 KiB) Interrupt:27 The output of lspic -v 01:00.0 Ethernet
Re: Network problem
Hi there I was suggesting to run a sort of stress test. iperf is a network performance testing utility which is well known and widely available. You might consider running some varied tests through the updated driven to ensure yourself that its now behaving more stable. On the other hand you may find that under high load (or something) that there are still problems - which you could then feed back to the driver author. There are many useful iperf tutorials online, i cant recommend one specifically. Dean On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:48:26 +0100, regexes wrote: Hi, I must admit, I don't know how to do some long iperf (internet performance??) tests... what exactly do you mean? I don't know what would be useful... regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:30:29 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: No probs perhaps stress test it with some long iperf tests ? Dean On 28/12/11 08:32, regexes wrote: Just to say... updating the kernel to 3.1.6 seems to have solved all of the issues. Thanks for the lead Dean! regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:29:43 +0100, regexes rege...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm... mine shows: blade:root:/var/log# modinfo atl1ce filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko version:1.0.0.2-NAPI license:GPL description:Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver author: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com srcversion: 8160DE57184B0C6C760D53E alias: pci:v1969d1073sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2060sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1063sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: vermagic: 2.6.32-5-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions Maybe a kernel upgrade would help... I guess I'll try that first. On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:00:19 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: here is the driver version in k3.1 root@astrotrain:/home/dean# modinfo atl1c filename: /lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko version:1.0.1.0-NAPI license:GPL description:Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver author: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com srcversion: 6B5B83F39487C00C3BF2E83 alias: pci:v1969d1083sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1073sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2060sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1063sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: intree: Y vermagic: 3.1.0-1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions If the version is the same in your kernel, its very unlikely that a kernel update will help. There doesnt appear to be any specific module options, so thats not something that can be explored. You can of course, email the driver author. They are almost always interested to know if a reproducible bug has been found. Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:24:44 +0100, regexes wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply... kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 Driver: atl1c I tried unloading and loading the driver but it didn't work though. I'll try some of your other suggestions. Maybe I'll find something. regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:59:46 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: The kernel may not be aware that something is wrong. Your email has garbled which driver is in use, could you please clarify and also which kernel version are you using? Some steps i suggest are... - see if traffic is leaving your machine (mirror ports, hubs or a cross over to another machine. then use tcpdump or wireshark) - try unloading and loading the driver, does it work again? - check what options are available for the driver, and play with any you might have - update your kernel some more exotic things to check... - check that iptables isnt being triggered by something? - it could be an irq conflict, especially if the card (or driver) doesnt play nicely with shared irqs. you may be able to clear the share by disabling an unused serial or parallel port - following from the above, you could change to polled rather than irq and see what happens. polling uses lots more cpu (ok thats an over simplification, it is better in some circumstances) - maybe your dns lease is expiring? Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:44:04 +0100, regexes wrote: Hello everyone, I just aquired a new Lenovo G770 laptop and am having a strange issue with the Ethernet Controller. Network connection works fine for a few minutes then dies. The interface is still configured though but it just stops working. There are no error messages in dmesg either. My router is not a problem. Access is granted and it does work to begin with and the logs show nothing abnormal. I've seen a few threads concering the G770 with Ubuntu but nothing that addresses this problem. Output of ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
Re: Network problem
here is the driver version in k3.1 root@astrotrain:/home/dean# modinfo atl1c filename: /lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko version:1.0.1.0-NAPI license:GPL description:Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver author: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com srcversion: 6B5B83F39487C00C3BF2E83 alias: pci:v1969d1083sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1073sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2060sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1063sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: intree: Y vermagic: 3.1.0-1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions If the version is the same in your kernel, its very unlikely that a kernel update will help. There doesnt appear to be any specific module options, so thats not something that can be explored. You can of course, email the driver author. They are almost always interested to know if a reproducible bug has been found. Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:24:44 +0100, regexes wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply... kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 Driver: atl1c I tried unloading and loading the driver but it didn't work though. I'll try some of your other suggestions. Maybe I'll find something. regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:59:46 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: The kernel may not be aware that something is wrong. Your email has garbled which driver is in use, could you please clarify and also which kernel version are you using? Some steps i suggest are... - see if traffic is leaving your machine (mirror ports, hubs or a cross over to another machine. then use tcpdump or wireshark) - try unloading and loading the driver, does it work again? - check what options are available for the driver, and play with any you might have - update your kernel some more exotic things to check... - check that iptables isnt being triggered by something? - it could be an irq conflict, especially if the card (or driver) doesnt play nicely with shared irqs. you may be able to clear the share by disabling an unused serial or parallel port - following from the above, you could change to polled rather than irq and see what happens. polling uses lots more cpu (ok thats an over simplification, it is better in some circumstances) - maybe your dns lease is expiring? Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:44:04 +0100, regexes wrote: Hello everyone, I just aquired a new Lenovo G770 laptop and am having a strange issue with the Ethernet Controller. Network connection works fine for a few minutes then dies. The interface is still configured though but it just stops working. There are no error messages in dmesg either. My router is not a problem. Access is granted and it does work to begin with and the logs show nothing abnormal. I've seen a few threads concering the G770 with Ubuntu but nothing that addresses this problem. Output of ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx inet6 addr: :::::/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4773236 (4.5 MiB) TX bytes:457213 (446.4 KiB) Interrupt:27 The output of lspic -v 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3979 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27 Memory at d050 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] I/O ports at 2000 [size=128] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [6c] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [180] Device Serial Number xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx Kernel driver in use: atl101:00.0 Anybody have an idea what could be happening with the Eternet controller and how I can fix it? Another issue are the function keys. On my old Thinkpad, the tpb package worked very well, however, that package isn't available on amd64. What other possibility is there to get the function keys to work? Thanks for any help! regexes -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- Come play computer games with us at http://fragfest.com.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of
Re: Network problem
The kernel may not be aware that something is wrong. Your email has garbled which driver is in use, could you please clarify and also which kernel version are you using? Some steps i suggest are... - see if traffic is leaving your machine (mirror ports, hubs or a cross over to another machine. then use tcpdump or wireshark) - try unloading and loading the driver, does it work again? - check what options are available for the driver, and play with any you might have - update your kernel some more exotic things to check... - check that iptables isnt being triggered by something? - it could be an irq conflict, especially if the card (or driver) doesnt play nicely with shared irqs. you may be able to clear the share by disabling an unused serial or parallel port - following from the above, you could change to polled rather than irq and see what happens. polling uses lots more cpu (ok thats an over simplification, it is better in some circumstances) - maybe your dns lease is expiring? Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:44:04 +0100, regexes wrote: Hello everyone, I just aquired a new Lenovo G770 laptop and am having a strange issue with the Ethernet Controller. Network connection works fine for a few minutes then dies. The interface is still configured though but it just stops working. There are no error messages in dmesg either. My router is not a problem. Access is granted and it does work to begin with and the logs show nothing abnormal. I've seen a few threads concering the G770 with Ubuntu but nothing that addresses this problem. Output of ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx inet6 addr: :::::/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4773236 (4.5 MiB) TX bytes:457213 (446.4 KiB) Interrupt:27 The output of lspic -v 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3979 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27 Memory at d050 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] I/O ports at 2000 [size=128] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [6c] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [180] Device Serial Number xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx Kernel driver in use: atl101:00.0 Anybody have an idea what could be happening with the Eternet controller and how I can fix it? Another issue are the function keys. On my old Thinkpad, the tpb package worked very well, however, that package isn't available on amd64. What other possibility is there to get the function keys to work? Thanks for any help! regexes -- Come play computer games with us at http://fragfest.com.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/0791f4e4902b89dfc87e774d2ca7f...@bong.com.au
Re: Network problem
Hmmm... mine shows: blade:root:/var/log# modinfo atl1ce filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko version:1.0.0.2-NAPI license:GPL description:Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver author: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com srcversion: 8160DE57184B0C6C760D53E alias: pci:v1969d1073sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2060sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1063sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: vermagic: 2.6.32-5-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions Maybe a kernel upgrade would help... I guess I'll try that first. On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:00:19 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: here is the driver version in k3.1 root@astrotrain:/home/dean# modinfo atl1c filename: /lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko version:1.0.1.0-NAPI license:GPL description:Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver author: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com srcversion: 6B5B83F39487C00C3BF2E83 alias: pci:v1969d1083sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1073sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2060sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1063sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: intree: Y vermagic: 3.1.0-1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions If the version is the same in your kernel, its very unlikely that a kernel update will help. There doesnt appear to be any specific module options, so thats not something that can be explored. You can of course, email the driver author. They are almost always interested to know if a reproducible bug has been found. Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:24:44 +0100, regexes wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply... kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 Driver: atl1c I tried unloading and loading the driver but it didn't work though. I'll try some of your other suggestions. Maybe I'll find something. regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:59:46 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: The kernel may not be aware that something is wrong. Your email has garbled which driver is in use, could you please clarify and also which kernel version are you using? Some steps i suggest are... - see if traffic is leaving your machine (mirror ports, hubs or a cross over to another machine. then use tcpdump or wireshark) - try unloading and loading the driver, does it work again? - check what options are available for the driver, and play with any you might have - update your kernel some more exotic things to check... - check that iptables isnt being triggered by something? - it could be an irq conflict, especially if the card (or driver) doesnt play nicely with shared irqs. you may be able to clear the share by disabling an unused serial or parallel port - following from the above, you could change to polled rather than irq and see what happens. polling uses lots more cpu (ok thats an over simplification, it is better in some circumstances) - maybe your dns lease is expiring? Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:44:04 +0100, regexes wrote: Hello everyone, I just aquired a new Lenovo G770 laptop and am having a strange issue with the Ethernet Controller. Network connection works fine for a few minutes then dies. The interface is still configured though but it just stops working. There are no error messages in dmesg either. My router is not a problem. Access is granted and it does work to begin with and the logs show nothing abnormal. I've seen a few threads concering the G770 with Ubuntu but nothing that addresses this problem. Output of ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx inet6 addr: :::::/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4773236 (4.5 MiB) TX bytes:457213 (446.4 KiB) Interrupt:27 The output of lspic -v 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3979 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27 Memory at d050 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] I/O ports at 2000 [size=128] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [58] Express
Re: Network problem
Hi, Thanks for the reply... kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 Driver: atl1c I tried unloading and loading the driver but it didn't work though. I'll try some of your other suggestions. Maybe I'll find something. regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:59:46 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: The kernel may not be aware that something is wrong. Your email has garbled which driver is in use, could you please clarify and also which kernel version are you using? Some steps i suggest are... - see if traffic is leaving your machine (mirror ports, hubs or a cross over to another machine. then use tcpdump or wireshark) - try unloading and loading the driver, does it work again? - check what options are available for the driver, and play with any you might have - update your kernel some more exotic things to check... - check that iptables isnt being triggered by something? - it could be an irq conflict, especially if the card (or driver) doesnt play nicely with shared irqs. you may be able to clear the share by disabling an unused serial or parallel port - following from the above, you could change to polled rather than irq and see what happens. polling uses lots more cpu (ok thats an over simplification, it is better in some circumstances) - maybe your dns lease is expiring? Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:44:04 +0100, regexes wrote: Hello everyone, I just aquired a new Lenovo G770 laptop and am having a strange issue with the Ethernet Controller. Network connection works fine for a few minutes then dies. The interface is still configured though but it just stops working. There are no error messages in dmesg either. My router is not a problem. Access is granted and it does work to begin with and the logs show nothing abnormal. I've seen a few threads concering the G770 with Ubuntu but nothing that addresses this problem. Output of ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx inet6 addr: :::::/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4773236 (4.5 MiB) TX bytes:457213 (446.4 KiB) Interrupt:27 The output of lspic -v 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3979 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27 Memory at d050 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] I/O ports at 2000 [size=128] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [6c] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [180] Device Serial Number xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx Kernel driver in use: atl101:00.0 Anybody have an idea what could be happening with the Eternet controller and how I can fix it? Another issue are the function keys. On my old Thinkpad, the tpb package worked very well, however, that package isn't available on amd64. What other possibility is there to get the function keys to work? Thanks for any help! regexes -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/op.v65gviqvwdwvgj@blade
Re: Network problem
Just to say... updating the kernel to 3.1.6 seems to have solved all of the issues. Thanks for the lead Dean! regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:29:43 +0100, regexes rege...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm... mine shows: blade:root:/var/log# modinfo atl1ce filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko version:1.0.0.2-NAPI license:GPL description:Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver author: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com srcversion: 8160DE57184B0C6C760D53E alias: pci:v1969d1073sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2060sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1063sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: vermagic: 2.6.32-5-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions Maybe a kernel upgrade would help... I guess I'll try that first. On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:00:19 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: here is the driver version in k3.1 root@astrotrain:/home/dean# modinfo atl1c filename: /lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko version:1.0.1.0-NAPI license:GPL description:Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver author: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com srcversion: 6B5B83F39487C00C3BF2E83 alias: pci:v1969d1083sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1073sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2060sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1063sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: intree: Y vermagic: 3.1.0-1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions If the version is the same in your kernel, its very unlikely that a kernel update will help. There doesnt appear to be any specific module options, so thats not something that can be explored. You can of course, email the driver author. They are almost always interested to know if a reproducible bug has been found. Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:24:44 +0100, regexes wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply... kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 Driver: atl1c I tried unloading and loading the driver but it didn't work though. I'll try some of your other suggestions. Maybe I'll find something. regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:59:46 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: The kernel may not be aware that something is wrong. Your email has garbled which driver is in use, could you please clarify and also which kernel version are you using? Some steps i suggest are... - see if traffic is leaving your machine (mirror ports, hubs or a cross over to another machine. then use tcpdump or wireshark) - try unloading and loading the driver, does it work again? - check what options are available for the driver, and play with any you might have - update your kernel some more exotic things to check... - check that iptables isnt being triggered by something? - it could be an irq conflict, especially if the card (or driver) doesnt play nicely with shared irqs. you may be able to clear the share by disabling an unused serial or parallel port - following from the above, you could change to polled rather than irq and see what happens. polling uses lots more cpu (ok thats an over simplification, it is better in some circumstances) - maybe your dns lease is expiring? Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:44:04 +0100, regexes wrote: Hello everyone, I just aquired a new Lenovo G770 laptop and am having a strange issue with the Ethernet Controller. Network connection works fine for a few minutes then dies. The interface is still configured though but it just stops working. There are no error messages in dmesg either. My router is not a problem. Access is granted and it does work to begin with and the logs show nothing abnormal. I've seen a few threads concering the G770 with Ubuntu but nothing that addresses this problem. Output of ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx inet6 addr: :::::/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4773236 (4.5 MiB) TX bytes:457213 (446.4 KiB) Interrupt:27 The output of lspic -v 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3979 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27 Memory at d050 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] I/O ports at 2000
Re: Network problem
No probs perhaps stress test it with some long iperf tests ? Dean On 28/12/11 08:32, regexes wrote: Just to say... updating the kernel to 3.1.6 seems to have solved all of the issues. Thanks for the lead Dean! regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:29:43 +0100, regexes rege...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm... mine shows: blade:root:/var/log# modinfo atl1ce filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko version:1.0.0.2-NAPI license:GPL description:Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver author: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com srcversion: 8160DE57184B0C6C760D53E alias: pci:v1969d1073sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2060sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1063sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: vermagic: 2.6.32-5-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions Maybe a kernel upgrade would help... I guess I'll try that first. On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:00:19 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: here is the driver version in k3.1 root@astrotrain:/home/dean# modinfo atl1c filename: /lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko version:1.0.1.0-NAPI license:GPL description:Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver author: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com srcversion: 6B5B83F39487C00C3BF2E83 alias: pci:v1969d1083sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1073sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d2060sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1062sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1969d1063sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: intree: Y vermagic: 3.1.0-1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions If the version is the same in your kernel, its very unlikely that a kernel update will help. There doesnt appear to be any specific module options, so thats not something that can be explored. You can of course, email the driver author. They are almost always interested to know if a reproducible bug has been found. Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:24:44 +0100, regexes wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply... kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 Driver: atl1c I tried unloading and loading the driver but it didn't work though. I'll try some of your other suggestions. Maybe I'll find something. regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:59:46 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: The kernel may not be aware that something is wrong. Your email has garbled which driver is in use, could you please clarify and also which kernel version are you using? Some steps i suggest are... - see if traffic is leaving your machine (mirror ports, hubs or a cross over to another machine. then use tcpdump or wireshark) - try unloading and loading the driver, does it work again? - check what options are available for the driver, and play with any you might have - update your kernel some more exotic things to check... - check that iptables isnt being triggered by something? - it could be an irq conflict, especially if the card (or driver) doesnt play nicely with shared irqs. you may be able to clear the share by disabling an unused serial or parallel port - following from the above, you could change to polled rather than irq and see what happens. polling uses lots more cpu (ok thats an over simplification, it is better in some circumstances) - maybe your dns lease is expiring? Dean On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:44:04 +0100, regexes wrote: Hello everyone, I just aquired a new Lenovo G770 laptop and am having a strange issue with the Ethernet Controller. Network connection works fine for a few minutes then dies. The interface is still configured though but it just stops working. There are no error messages in dmesg either. My router is not a problem. Access is granted and it does work to begin with and the logs show nothing abnormal. I've seen a few threads concering the G770 with Ubuntu but nothing that addresses this problem. Output of ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx inet6 addr: :::::/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4773236 (4.5 MiB) TX bytes:457213 (446.4 KiB) Interrupt:27 The output of lspic -v 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3979 Flags: bus
