-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Null Ack wrote: | Gday everyone :) | | So Im having alot of problems with loosing eth0 connectivity after a | period of time. I'm trying to be an advocate for Ubuntu, but it's hard | when a major bug makes the experience painful. I'm desperate to fix this | problem. I have various things up on the lanuchpad bug report at: | | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+bug/111282 | | Many thanks for any help. |
"dmesg" is a program that prints out errors/information directly from the kernel to the screen. After this bug happens, could you please collect the output of dmesg, and past the last dozen lines or so to the mailing list. There appears to be a known issue with the Intel 82573L only being able to be detected at boot time. It also appears that when waking from sleep, the device is not properly initialised. This is not specific to Ubuntu either - it is a kernel level issue (thus it affects all Linux distros). Fixing these sorts of issues require someone with more intimate knowledge of both the hardware and the kernel. Intel themselves are quite excellent with their contribution to kernel code, and I would assume they will issue a fix shortly. In the meantime, the suggested workaround is to do a complete module reload sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop sudo rmmod e1000 sudo depmod e1000 sudo modprobe e1000 sudo /etc/init.d/networking start Again, if you could do that, check if network connectivity resumes, and if it does, collect the output of "dmesg". If the workaround works for you, you can turn it into a script to run on demand. While it's not ideal, it might get you working in the short term until a kernel level fix finds its way downstream into Ubuntu. Again, please don't judge the overall quality of either Ubuntu or Linux in general on this one issue. Linux supports quite literally tens of thousands of devices perfectly. Those that aren't working are not swept under the rug either. Linux is very much about full disclosure. The fact that you've already reported the bug is an excellent first step (indeed, far more than most people do), and will aide Ubuntu and other distros in finding what's at fault, and beginning the task of fixing the problem. - -Dan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIXW7LeFJDv0P9Qb8RAiEMAJ9otXk41xSQIb0bq4Y8QRP1fO2HpQCgge5n o1rUSzL8NPflMRyvmRUslq8= =wwA1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au