Public bug reported:
Every morning I boot my two systems: one Dell Vostro 200 running 32-bit
Jaunty, the other an Acer Extensa running Windows XP Professional SP3.
The Extensa and the Vostro are both wired to the same consumer-grade
router, a Belkin F5D8233.
The Extensa gets itself an IP through DHCP and logs onto the domain, no
problem. Everything network-y (email, web, network drives etc) works
fine.
The Vostro times out. It sends out lots of DHCPDISCOVER packets. Only
after numerous manual "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart" (and much
foul language) does it finally see a DHCPOFFER from the Belkin. Once
this happens, everything works perfectly. It's just the initial failures
that irritate me. (It doesn't help that the router itself is rubbish,
but I try not to stress the poor thing. Anyway the problem predates the
installation of the router.) Hibernating instead of shutting down
doesn't help; the network stays connected, but the link is dead on wake-
up and I have to "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart".
This problem has been with the Vostro since Gutsy (it's been upgraded to
Hardy and Intrepid before Jaunty, never is there a fix). IIRC there were
some driver issues with Gutsy which were finally resolved in Intrepid
(no more manual driver compiling at every kernel upgrade, hurrah).
I've tried Network Manager and wicd, neither fixes the problem. I've
stuck with wicd for now, because I want my boss to be able to access
network services on the Vostro even when I'm not here.
I'm guessing it's a bug in the e1000e driver. I can't see what else it
might be.
Here are some data regarding my setup, hopefully something obvious is
wrong. Thanks for reading.
arichard...@vostro-1:~$ lspci | grep -i eth
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network
Connection (rev 02)
arichard...@vostro-1:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 19
bus info: p...@0000:00:19.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:1a:a0:8e:3b:b4
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt
10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e
driverversion=0.3.3.3-k6 duplex=full firmware=1.1-2 ip=10.22.5.104 latency=0
link=yes module=e1000e multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
arichard...@vostro-1:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1a:a0:8e:3b:b4
inet addr:10.22.5.104 Bcast:10.22.5.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21a:a0ff:fe8e:3bb4/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1478 Metric:1
RX packets:682199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:516363 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:596725935 (596.7 MB) TX bytes:53380925 (53.3 MB)
Memory:fdfc0000-fdfe0000
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1a:a0:8e:3b:b4
inet addr:10.22.5.3 Bcast:10.22.5.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1478 Metric:1
Memory:fdfc0000-fdfe0000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:13995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7599721 (7.5 MB) TX bytes:7599721 (7.5 MB)
arichard...@vostro-1:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
mtu 1478
timeout 5
auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
address 10.22.5.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.22.5.2
mtu 1478
arichard...@vostro-1:~$ sudo lsmod | grep e1
e1000e 121136 0
arichard...@vostro-1:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: dhcp restart timeout
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dhclient keeps timing out
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382671
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