Bugzilla – Bug 117573
forcedeth driver cannot send packets
Last modified: 2005-11-14 13:51:09 UTC
After installing the forcedeth adapter by hand (autdetection does not work: maybe bug #116394), it seems to receive packages, but it cannot send packages. The network adapter works fine with SUSE 9.3. I have found following related message in /var/log/messages: "kernel: nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy<7>eth0: no IPv6 routers p resent" The Motherboard is a MSI NEO4-F (AMD64, NForce4 Chipset). lspci gives following information about the network adapter: "00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)"
*** Bug 117577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Did you try the various ACPI options (like "acpi=off")?
(In reply to comment #2) Yes, I have tried "acpi=off". Using this my system doesn't boot at all. I think most x86_64 systems need acpi. "acpi=noirq" doesn't make any change, except that there are some additional powersave related error messages in /var/log/messages. "pci=noacpi" has no effect.
Please submit the output of /sbin/lspci -vn -s 00:0a.0 and if it is different /sbin/lspci -vnb -s 00:0a.0
Created attachment 54212 [details] Output of /sbin/lspci -vn -s 00:0a.0
Created attachment 54213 [details] Output of /sbin/lspci -vnb -s 00:0a.0
After Installing the final version SUSE 10.0 the bug remains. I added another network adapter to my machine, configured the NIC controlled by forcedeth to a fixed IP address (I have used DHCP before) and verfied that it doesnt't work again. So that i would be able to check the not working NIC agin as often as neccessary. <snd so I did from time to time. Now directly after providing the output of /sbin/lspci -vn -s 00:0a.0 and /sbin/lspci -vnb -s 00:0a.0, I discovered that it works now.
So only to verify that I understand the last comment correctly: The adapter is now working with the 10.0 final version. Does this be also the case after a reboot, if yes we can close this issue I think.
Yes it doesn't work for some days, so I inserted a additional network card to keep the system running. After gathering the information you requested, i discovered that it worked. Now I have done a completely new installation, because of defect harddisk, and the adapter works from the beginning. So, the bug can be closed.
Maybe also a temporary hardware problem (contacts ...)
Hello, This is a critical bug that is in forcedeth 0.35, (Bug 119026) and should be fixed in 0.42 (see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=5234&action=view). However, it is not YET fixed. Jens
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119026 ***