On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 02:24:52AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The kernel log you sent shows the interface being brought up and down > several times in quick succession:
I have noticed this and cannot explain. > Could you test whether the same problem occurs if you do something > similar after reloading the driver: > > rmmod tg3 > modprobe tg3 > ip link set eth0 up ; sleep 0.1 ; ip link set eth0 down > ip link set eth0 up ; sleep 0.1 ; ip link set eth0 down > ip link set eth0 up > > If that does reproduce the problem, It does. The initrd doesn't have rmmod, I used modprobe -r, and the busybox sleep cannot sleep for 0.1 seconds, I used 1. After this operation, attempts to to DHCP fail until the module is removed and loadd again. > could you also try the same with Linux 3.0 on this system? I have pulled kernel and initrd from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/netboot.tar.gz and have booted the machine via PXE with this kernel and initrd. This is a 3.0.0-1-amd64 kernel, and its behavior is different, but simliar. This time, the first DHCP gets through, but subsequent network operations (including a second try to run DHCP) fail the same way. Again, this is fixed by removing and re-loading the module. However, the installer complains after doing DHCP that no kernel modules were found, which is probably due to a mismatch between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel version available in the archive. I guess, that was to be expected. Is there anything more I can do? Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
