Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:17:02 -0800 | From | Auke Kok <> | Subject | Re: [E1000-devel] e1000 : link down issues |
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castet.matthieu@free.fr wrote: > Hi, > > I got a 82566DM e1000 network controller [1] on my motherboard, and most of the > time the link go down when doing dhcp. [2] > > ifconfig eth0 up -> link become up > dhclient eth0 -> some packet are transmited and received and the link become > down.
I'm unsure whether we saw this problem before or not but it does sound familiar. First I would like to ask you to check your motherboards vendor website for a possible BIOS update for your motherboard. The 82566DM chipsets are rather new and we have pushed out NVM changes to vendors for some known issues.
> I sometimes got e1000_reset: Hardware Error. > > This happen with vanilla 2.6.19 and e1000-7.3.20 drivers. > > This is very anoying because I should do rmmod e1000; modprobe e1000; ifup e1000 > in loop until the link stay up. I try forcing speed, duplex and flow control, but > nothing solve my issue. > > The device is working fine on windows.
unfortunately that doesn't say that much. I do know that we are queueing some ich8/82566 changes for the kernel and if you're willing to try them I can provide patch to the kernel netdev tree to you (it was posted here 3 days ago) to try.
Cheers,
Auke
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