Hi all,
I had problem with my Intel integrated network card 82578. At cold boot,
kernel failed to load module e1000e (with error -3).
At reboot, everything is fine, module e1000e get loaded and network is
working.
Kernel is gentoo-3.3.8
network card is : Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit
Network Connection (rev 05)
Following advices found in mail :
"http://www.mail-archive.com/e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02538.html";
I compiled& loaded the last e1000e kernel module 2.0.0 got from intel site
(http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&keyword=%22e1000e%22)
but a cold boot it fails too.
/var/log/messages at cold boot gives something like this
Jul 5 21:54:26 localhost kernel: e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network
Driver - 2.0.0-NAPI
Jul 5 21:54:26 localhost kernel: e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2012
Intel Corporation.
Jul 5 21:54:26 localhost kernel: e1000e 0000:00:19.0: setting
latency timer to 64
Jul 5 21:54:27 localhost kernel: e1000e: probe of 0000:00:19.0
failed with error -3
/var/log/messages at reboot gives this :
Jul 5 21:55:39 localhost kernel: e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network
Driver - 2.0.0-NAPI
Jul 5 21:55:39 localhost kernel: e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2012
Intel Corporation.
Jul 5 21:55:39 localhost kernel: e1000e 0000:00:19.0: setting
latency timer to 64
Jul 5 21:55:42 localhost kernel: e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 45 for
MSI/MSI-X
Jul 5 21:55:42 localhost kernel: e1000e 0000:00:19.0: eth0: (PCI
Express:2.5GT/s:Width x1) 00:01:29:00:9b:da
Jul 5 21:55:42 localhost kernel: e1000e 0000:00:19.0: eth0:
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
Jul 5 21:55:42 localhost kernel: e1000e 0000:00:19.0: eth0: MAC:
10, PHY: 9, PBA No: FFFFFF-0FF
Working on e1000e sources, I made& applied the following patch on ich8lan.c
(same principle as msg02538.html),
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** ich8lan_ORIG.c 2012-04-13 20:01:20.000000000 +0200
--- ich8lan_NEW.c 2012-07-06 09:36:02.383078176 +0200
***************
*** 360,367 ****
--- 360,371 ----
phy->id = e1000_phy_unknown;
ret_val = e1000_init_phy_workarounds_pchlan(hw);
+ if (ret_val){
+ e1000_reset_hw_ich8lan(hw);
+ ret_val = e1000_init_phy_workarounds_pchlan(hw);
if (ret_val)
return ret_val;
+ }
if (phy->id == e1000_phy_unknown)
switch (hw->mac.type) {
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I'm not sure it's right, but using this patch on my network card made it
work well at cold boot.
Any suggestion would be helped me make the patch better
Thanks.
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