On Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:16 AM, Brian De Wolf wrote: > I ran into a rather strange issue when upgrading a Sun Fire X4150 from > (gentoo kernel versions) 2.6.33-r2 to 2.6.34-r1 this week. After > booting the new kernel, only two of the four interfaces came up. After > some troubleshooting, the culprit appeared to be our kernel options > for > printing messages to the console, "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8". > If I remove these options, all four interfaces come up. During > testing, though, I booted a 2.6.30 Arch install ISO and had the same > problem. I'm not sure what's going wrong here, but it's incredibly > frustrating, as the interfaces that don't appear are the first two, so > the machine never appears on the network. > > The only significant thing I can see is that, when it doesn't work, > the > bus it appears on isn't the same as when it does work. Any ideas or > suggestions? > > Here's the syslog output from various boot attempts and some lspci > -vvv > output.
Strange that the console kernel parameters apparently cause this. Can you provide the full (not just the ethernet devices) lspci -t and lspci -vvv outputs for when it is working and when it is not? One or more PCI bridges might not be recognized by the system and if that is the case there is no way any PCI device hanging off the bridge will be detected (not much can be done about that by the driver). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
