Bugzilla – Bug 139603
ACPI shared IRQ11 (firewire ohci1394 and ethernet sk98lin)
Last modified: 2005-12-19 10:31:05 UTC
The ACPI shared IRQ11 with firewire interface (ohci1394) and ethernet (sk98lin) in Laptop Toshiba M45-S355: <http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/product/pdf_files/detailed_specs/satellite_M45-S355.pdf> With this, my ethernet don't work! dmesg: <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=6836&action=view> Thanks, Renato S. Yamane
Try apic (do not mix with acpi) as boot option.
Keil, with option "apic acpi=off" I lost ALL power manager. The network work very well, but this machine is a laptop and power manager is very important, so apic is not so good option :-(
Why acpi=off ? apic has nothing to do with acpi (but since only 3 letters are mixed, people often mixing these two things). It maybe that apic alone make this working for you again, if not you can try pci=noacpi, which will only ignore ACPI IRQ routing tables, but still allow POWER management. Please also try the kernel update, here are some important fixes in the ACPI area.
Keil, with alone apic I have the same problem. With pci=noacpi my mouse (USB) is very slow after some time and my ethernet down, but soon after boot, the mouse and ethernet is OK. I found this options in Fedora Forum (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-47813.html): irqpoll pci=usepirqmask I don't know what this means, but with this options in kernel line, ALL work fine! This problem with ethernet (sk98lin) is found in several forums, also Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu, but the reply is: "put acpi=off in boot options". This reply is not so good to laptops! Thanks, Renato
I forgot this: I use last kernel of SuSE (2.6.13-15.7-default)
This problem keep out if use Kernel 2.6.15RC5 with mm3 patch (using module sky2). I compile this new Kernel WITH this patch (mm3) now and don't have problem. If I use module sk98lin or skge available in native kernel 2.6.15rc5, my ethernet don't work. All OK in my Toshiba M45-S355: <http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/product/pdf_files/detailed_specs/satellite_M45-S355.pdf> Thanks, Renato S. Yamane BRAZIL.
Hi Renato, this is obviously a problem with a bad ACPI BIOS. Since using "irqpoll pci=usepirqmask" fixes your problem, I will close this as RESOLVED/FIXED. Note that in 10.1 we will move to the sky2 driver.