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From: Ross Boylan on 30 Mar 2006 01:10
The kernel log shows the message in the subject line among its startup
messages. It also shows it if I do ifdown eth1 followed by ifup.
DHCPDISCOVER from the card is failing; if I interpret the message the
driver is not loading properly, so DHCP has no chance. My dhcp server
isn't reporting any activity.

Networking in general has been erratic on this machine, working
sometimes and not others. I also have an ethernet 1000 interface on
the motherboard that was even more trouble. I think it gave similar
errors to the one in the subject line.

A few days ago I had three systems fighting over the card:
1. /etc/network/interfaces says it should do dhcp, and was auto
2. zeroconf was trying to give it some other ip addresses
3. hotplug/udev

Typically the card worked, although sometimes I had to ifdown and ifup
manually. Sometimes it showed an IP assigned from zeroconf but still
worked with the dhcp assigned IP.

A few days ago I removed zeroconf; the card was working when I did
ifdown/up then. I've also done an upgrade since then.

The motherboard is a very recent Intel 945 (PSN, I think). Chip is
Pentium IV. SMP Linux kernel 2.6.15. SATA disk drive.

The kernel documentation gave some debugging suggestions for the e100
driver. I tried dmesg -n 8 (using modprobe to remove and insert the
driver), but nothing interesting shows in the log (at least that I can
tell--nothing that looks like an error message).

I've searched the net and found that messages about similar errors
seem to involve problems with the driver itself. However, I'm not
sure if my symptoms are quite the same. I wouldn't expect
difficulties with Intel ethernet, but the newness of the motherboard
may have caused some problems (and one of the threads did discuss
interference with the SATA drive).

I'd appreciate any suggestions about how to proceed.

Thanks.

Ross Boylan


P.S. I also tried starting a Linux Console session in KDE's Konsole,
but it doesn't seem to display anything. Should it, or is that just a
different style for a regular terminal?


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From: Kevin Mark on 30 Mar 2006 01:20
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:08:29PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions about how to proceed.
Hi Ross,
I like trying knoppix or other live distro to see how they react to the
card. If it works with them, then its your debian configuration. Also,
if its a card, try it in another machine. or if you have a spare of the
same model, swap it out.
Cheers,
Kev
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From: Ross Boylan on 30 Mar 2006 01:30
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:19:19AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:08:29PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> >
> > I'd appreciate any suggestions about how to proceed.
> Hi Ross,
> I like trying knoppix or other live distro to see how they react to the
> card. If it works with them, then its your debian configuration.

You reminded me that I've already done that. Worked fine (at least
e100; not sure about e1000) with knoppix.

Also, never a problem with Windows 2000 on the same machine.

> Also,
> if its a card, try it in another machine. or if you have a spare of the
> same model, swap it out.
> Cheers,
> Kev



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