RE: [REGRESSION] e1000e stopped working

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 10:04 -0700, Allan, Bruce W wrote:
> On Sunday, June 27, 2010 10:47 AM, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 20:43 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 20:29 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 20:27 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> >>>> Just that,
> >>>> 
> >>>> It doesn't receive anything from my internet router during DHCP.
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82566DC
> >>>> 	Gigabit Network Connection [8086:104b] (rev 02) Subsystem: Intel
> >>>> 	Corporation Device [8086:0001] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+
> >>>> 	SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> >>>> 	DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast
> >>>> 	>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- 	Latency: 0
> >>>> 	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 47 Region 0: Memory at 50300000
> >>>> 	(32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Region 1: Memory at
> >>>> 	50324000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 2: I/O ports
> >>>> 		at 30e0 [size=32] Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
> >>>> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> >>>> 	PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0
> >>>> 		DScale=1 PME- Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts:
> >>>> 	Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+ Address: 00000000fee0100c  Data:
> >>>> 	41c9 Kernel driver in use: e1000e Kernel modules: e1000e
> >>>> 
> >>>> I use vanilla tree, commit bf2937695fe2330bfd8933a2310e7bdd2581dc2e
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Best regards,
> >>>> 	Maxim Levitsky
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> It appears to work now after reboot.
> >>> Will keep a look for this.
> >>> 
> >>> Disregard for now.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Just s2ram cycle, problem is back.
> >> Did full reboot (power off then on), same thing card doesn't work...
> >> 
> > 
> > Yep, s2ram sometimes 'fixes', sometimes breaks the card.
> > Something got broken in device initialization path.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> >  	Maxim Levitsky
> 
> What distro are you using?  If RedHat, since you are using DHCP will you please try putting a "LINKDELAY=10" in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX config file.
> 
I use ubuntu 9.10

> Is there anything in the system log that might help narrow down the issue?

Nothing, really nothing.
It seems to detect link, dhcp client sends requests, but doesn't recieve
a thing (even tried promisc mode - doesn't help)



Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky