You have been subscribed to a public bug: During installation of Ubuntu 14.04 Server amd64, the installer correctly configures eth0 (via static IP in my case) and retrieves the host name and domain name from the DNS server. But it then loses connection with eth0 sometime shortly afterwards. /var/log/syslog shows the following:
May 27 21:26:24 kernel: [ 38.244015] tg3 0000:01:00.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update. The installation continues and completes, but hangs periodically whenever the installation process attempts to access the network. After rebooting the network devices work fine. (Although it does mean that my pre-seeded post-install scripts fail to install my repository and custom packages, as that requires network access.) The hardware in question is a Dell R300 with dual Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5722 Gigabit Ethernet. Said hardware has been running Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, and 12.04 flawlessly for years. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: bot-comment -- Installer looses eth0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323861 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp