Re: [SLE] Odd hardware problem on install?
- From: John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:15:21 -0800
This warrants an official bug report IMHO..
You might google around and find the maintainer and send
him some email.
I'd probably go get a cheap nic in the meantime and
disable that one.
On Saturday 28 October 2006 09:19, Clayton wrote:
Ok, this is kind of strange. Thought I'd throw it out here first
before I took it to the factory list, or submitted a bug... mainly
because I'm not sure what's going on yet.
Long story.....
I installed the 10.2 Beta 1 last night, and right about the time the
NIC was ID-ed and the driver loaded, the NIC "switched off". Don't
really know how else to describe it. The NIC light went out, and the
router it's connected too no longer had a light indicating an active
NIC connected.
At first I figured it was just an issue with 10.2 Beta 1... so I
booted back to 10.1. No network, and the NIC is still off. I booted
to WInXP, and no NIC there either. Rebooted the router... no fix.
Changed cables, and changed router connections... still no network,
and NIC is "off".
I left it was it was overnight, and started tinkering again this
morning. Restarted the computer from a cold start, and immediately
had a network connection in 10.1. Booted to 10.2 Beta 1 and had
network. The network worked fine on all OS-es I booted to this
morning.
This afternoon I decided to reinstall 10.2 Beta 1 to try out a few
other options etc. The install worked ad passed the NIC ID and config
section. I rolled the install back to a section before the NIC was
configured, and did the NIC config again... this time the NIC "turned
off" and again I had no network connectivity in any OS I booted to. I
tried all variations on the cabling (in case it was a bad cable)
including connecting direct to the cable modem, and had no
connectivity... no lights on the NIC at all.
I shut the computer down completely, and did a cold start - no NIC.
Went into the BIOS, disabled the onboard card, saved, cold start, back
into the BIOS, and re-enabled the NIC... and it's working again.
A little more tinkering, basically reconfiguring the NIC in 10.2 and
the 3rd try at it and the NIC "switched off" again. Repeat the whole
cold start and BIOS tinkering again (as this seems to be the only
thing that will wake up the card) and it starts working again.
It is stable now through multiple restarts, and multiple OS-es (10.1,
10.2 Beta 1 and WinXP) as long as i don't try to configure it in 10.2.
Nothing I can see in the logs etc that would indicate a problem.
The NIC is an onboard ASRock In M5263 using the uli526x driver/module.
(ID-ed the same on both 10.1 and 10.2).
So.. after all that is there anything anyone can think of for the
cause of this odd problem? I've triple checked the hardware and it
seems fine. It fails ONLY when i attempt to (re)configure the NIC in
10.2 Beta 1, and then not every time. It does not fail if I
reconfigure the card in WinXP or in 10.1.
Could it be something in 10.2 Beta 1? Any ideas?
C.
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