To summarize things as I understand them: - The machine was ok about a week ago - There has been no change in BIOS/or firmware - The card fails after a certain uptime and is not accessible anymore - This happens on all Precise kernels as tested now and even on an Oneiric kernel (which previously was ok)
This really sounds like a hardware problem. Unfortunately the NICs likely are onboard. Since in the initial dmesg, there is some life sign (interrupt assignment) from the second interface, have you tried to set that one up as a test. VPD seems to be "vital product data" and from the symptoms it seems that the communication between driver and card dies at some point and when the driver attempts a recovery it fails to obtain certain hardware information. Like it would be expected when the firmware running on the card crashed for some reason. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/960311 Title: Networking on Dell PowerEdge R300 with Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5722 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express is not functional To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/960311/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
