Cannot Get Back Ethernet Connection

Fri Jan 27 17:07:25 UTC 2012

> From: ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:23:52 -0500
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Cannot Get Back Ethernet Connection
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> 
> lspci -vv
> i mean.
> 
> -tl

Here's what came out - all I get out of it is that the irq's are different for ubuntu and fedora. 

UBUNTU:
-------------
"dmesg eth":
<snip>
[    0.815136] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.64.
[    0.815419] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APCH] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[    0.815424] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    1.336900] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732 @ 13, addr 00:1f:c6:04:ec:f0
[    1.336903] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: highdma pwrctl mgmt lnktim msi desc-v3
[ 2270.703264] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 2281.216026] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

"lspci -vv":
<snip>
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2a66
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0 (250ns min, 5000ns max)
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
    Region 0: Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Region 1: I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
    Kernel modules: forcedeth

FEDORA:
-------------
"dmesg eth":
<snip>
forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.64.
forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APCH] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: setting latency timer to 64
forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732 @ 13, addr 00:1f:c6:04:ec:f0
forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: highdma pwrctl mgmt lnktim msi desc-v3
forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

"lspci -vv":

<snip>
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2a66
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0 (250ns min, 5000ns max)
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 25
    Region 0: Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Region 1: I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
    Kernel modules: forcedeth

I find it odd that eth0 in fedora ended up with irq 25 rather than 22 (from the 2nd line of fedora dmesg), yet in ubuntu eth0 got irq 23 (from the 2nd line of ubuntu dmesg) rather than 25.

Is there a clue somewhere in the above?

Thanks,

John.

> 
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:13 AM, ted leslie <ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Compare lspci -xx on the two linux os.
> > -tl
> >
> > On Jan 27, 2012 10:08 AM, <john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello everyone;
> >>
> >> After many years of trouble free ethernet connections, I have now lost it
> >> (in more ways than one) and cannot get an IP address on my Ubuntu set up.
> >> The condensed version of this story is that it won't connect, regardless of
> >> whether I try DHCP or static IP address. Ubuntu just won't give me an IP
> >> address.
> >>
> >> On this same box, I also have Vista and Fedora. I am able to connect with
> >> either, both with DHCP and static address configurations.
> >>
> >> Here's a comparison of "dmesg | grep eth" for both Fedora and Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> Fedora:
> >> <snip>
> >> forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
> >> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> >>
> >> Ubuntu:
> >> <snip>
> >> [  480.187616] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
> >> [  490.348024] eth0: no[  480.187616] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for
> >> MSI/MSI-X
> >> [  490.348024] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> >> [  611.855532] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
> >> [  622.492015] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> >>
> >> I don't like what I see from Ubuntu and I have a feeling that it's not
> >> good. However, feelings don't fix things and I don't know where to go to fix
> >> it. I've been at this for days...
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated. And I can expand the story if necessary,
> >> just thought I'd zero in on the above first.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> John.

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