Greetings, I seem to have broken my ethernet networking on my Vaio Z505S running Debian kernal version 2.2.10
It was working fine including ethernet networking, and I had taken it home and got ppp working fine using a modem. Recently I recompiled the kernel (to turn sound support off). I mention this because the failure on networking could quite possibly be do to my recompile of the kernel. Today I brought the computer back into work and I cannot get the eth0 to work. Here are some dmesg errors (copied by hand by walking back and forth between the Vaio and a networked computer): ************ The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command 0013->0017 eth0: Invalid EEPROM checksum 0xffc0, check settigs before activating this device! eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0xfcc0, FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF, IRQ9. Receiver lock-up bug exists--enabling work around Board assembly ffffff-255, Physical conectors present: RJ45 BNC AUI MII Primary interface chip unknown-15 PHY #31 Secondary interface chip i82555 Self test failed, status ffffffff: Failure to initialize the i82557. Verify that the card is a bus-master capable slot. ************* After boot one gets the repeating error ********* eth0: Transmit timed out: Status ffff ffff at 0/15 command 0001a000. eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter.... ********* Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. Jim Warren -- Dr. James A. Warren Metallurgy Division Deputy Director, Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Contact Information: NIST email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8554 WWW:http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/~jwarren Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8554 Phone: (301)975-5708/FAX:(301)975-4553