'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 24/03/11 13:21 did gyre and gimble: > On 03/24/2011 08:02 AM, Frank Griffin wrote: >> >> I'll do that today. I've looked in older logs, and I find places >> where the kernel puts out the "unable to load firmware" message, but >> then gets link beat anyway. >> > Well, I've never been a believer in coincidence, but I've booted the old > kernel (2.37.4) as well as 2009.1 and Knoppix, and it appears that the > onboard r8169 NIC just happened to pick the reboot to 2.38 to break. > Nobody sees a link beat on it. A NIC which just happens to give up the > ghost coincidentally with a reboot would have been pretty far down my > list of possibilities. > > Sorry for the noise.
Could perhaps the firmware needed have been [re]moved with some other updates?... Perhaps the nic is not dead yet! :p Col -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
