Just to say... updating the kernel to 3.1.6 seems to have solved all of
the issues.
Thanks for the lead Dean!
regexes
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:29:43 +0100, regexes <[email protected]> wrote:
Hmmm... mine shows:
blade:root:/var/log# modinfo atl1ce
filename:
/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko
version: 1.0.0.2-NAPI
license: GPL
description: Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver
author: Jie Yang <[email protected]>
srcversion: 8160DE57184B0C6C760D53E
alias: pci:v00001969d00001073sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00002062sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00002060sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00001062sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00001063sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.32-5-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions
Maybe a kernel upgrade would help... I guess I'll try that first.
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:00:19 +0100, Dean Hamstead <[email protected]>
wrote:
here is the driver version in k3.1
root@astrotrain:/home/dean# modinfo atl1c
filename:
/lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko
version: 1.0.1.0-NAPI
license: GPL
description: Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver
author: Jie Yang <[email protected]>
srcversion: 6B5B83F39487C00C3BF2E83
alias: pci:v00001969d00001083sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00001073sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00002062sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00002060sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00001062sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00001063sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:
intree: Y
vermagic: 3.1.0-1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions
If the version is the same in your kernel, its very unlikely that a
kernel update will help.
There doesnt appear to be any specific module options, so thats not
something that can be explored.
You can of course, email the driver author. They are almost always
interested to know if a reproducible bug has been found.
Dean
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:24:44 +0100, regexes wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the reply...
kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64
Driver: atl1c
I tried unloading and loading the driver but it didn't work though.
I'll try some of your other suggestions. Maybe I'll find something.
regexes
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:59:46 +0100, Dean Hamstead
<[email protected]> wrote:
The kernel may not be aware that something is wrong. Your email has
garbled which driver is in use, could you please clarify and also
which kernel version are you using?
Some steps i suggest are...
- see if traffic is leaving your machine (mirror ports, hubs or a
cross over to another machine. then use tcpdump or wireshark)
- try unloading and loading the driver, does it work again?
- check what options are available for the driver, and play with any
you might have
- update your kernel
some more exotic things to check...
- check that iptables isnt being triggered by something?
- it could be an irq conflict, especially if the card (or driver)
doesnt play nicely with shared irqs. you may be able to clear the
share by disabling an unused serial or parallel port
- following from the above, you could change to polled rather than
irq and see what happens. polling uses lots more cpu (ok thats an
over simplification, it is better in some circumstances)
- maybe your dns lease is expiring?
Dean
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:44:04 +0100, regexes wrote:
Hello everyone,
I just aquired a new Lenovo G770 laptop and am having a strange
issue with
the Ethernet Controller.
Network connection works fine for a few minutes then dies. The
interface
is still configured though but it just stops working. There are no
error
messages in dmesg either.
My router is not a problem. Access is granted and it does work to
begin
with and the logs show nothing abnormal.
I've seen a few threads concering the G770 with Ubuntu but nothing
that
addresses this problem.
Output of ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Mask:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
inet6 addr: xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:3139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4773236 (4.5 MiB) TX bytes:457213
(446.4 KiB)
Interrupt:27
The output of lspic -v
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast
Ethernet (rev c1)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3979
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
Memory at d0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=256K]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable-
64bit+
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [6c] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [180] Device Serial Number
xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
Kernel driver in use: atl101:00.0
Anybody have an idea what could be happening with the Eternet
controller
and how I can fix it?
Another issue are the function keys. On my old Thinkpad, the
tpb package worked very well, however, that package isn't available
on
amd64. What other possibility is there to get the function keys to
work?
Thanks for any help!
regexes
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