From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932282Ab3CDSVO (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Mar 2013 13:21:14 -0500 Received: from mx02.imt-systems.com ([81.30.145.140]:52958 "EHLO mx02.imt-systems.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758637Ab3CDSVJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Mar 2013 13:21:09 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 355 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:21:09 EST X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.3 ucsinet10.imt-systems.com r24IF7tx004524 Message-ID: <5134E4AB.2010504@imt-systems.com> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:15:07 +0100 From: Morten Stevens Organization: IMT-Systems GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?TWloYWkgRG9uyJt1?= CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: e1000e: nic does not work properly after cold power on References: <20130304124631.2ac730f3@mdontu-l.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <20130304124631.2ac730f3@mdontu-l.dsd.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -2.628 () DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04.03.2013 11:46, Mihai Donțu wrote: > Hi, > > I apologize in advance for posting on two lists at once and for not > even being subscribed to e1000-devel. > > Ever since upgrading to 3.8.x, I'm unable to use my wired connection > (e1000e - Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit) immediately after power > on. I have to boot into an older kernel (3.2.0 I happen to have around) > and _then_ boot into 3.8.1. There are no errors in dmesg that I can > see. The only one behaving strangely is NetworkManager who simply says > the device is managed and skips it. Also, there's no 'link becomes > ready' in dmesg either (and I swear the cable is plugged in). Hi, Can you reproduce this with linux 3.9-rc1? 3.9-rc1 has the latest upstream driver (e1000e 2.2.14) which contains many bugfixes. Best regards, Morten