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LaSAR
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Joined: 12 Apr 2002
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Location: Antwerp, Belgium
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 Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 4:25 pm Post subject: dying NIC? |
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hi,
ive got a strage problem lately.
Sometimes my NIC module (8139too.o) fails to load at boottime and sometimes it succeeds. When it fails and i try to load it with modprobe i get a:
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modprobe: Can't locate module 8139too
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when i try with insmod is get:
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/lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r10/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o: unresolved symbol mii_link_ok_Rsmp_31b461d5
/lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r10/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o: unresolved symbol mii_ethtool_gset_Rsmp_86c76eff
/lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r10/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o: unresolved symbol mii_nway_restart_Rsmp_a7922d75
/lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r10/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o: unresolved symbol mii_ethtool_sset_Rsmp_af1274bf
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when i rebuild my kernel or do a " make dep && make modules modules_install "
i can load my module just fine.
But the strange thing is the module only loads succesfully during boot 50% of the time.
And rebuilding the modules the other 50% of the time just isnt the solution 
Any ideas for the reason behind this problem? could it be that the NIC is dying?? (seems rather strange to me, considering it works perfectly when the module gets loaded). |
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rac
Bodhisattva
Joined: 30 May 2002
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Location: Japanifornia
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| Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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Can you try compiling the necessary drivers into the kernel directly, instead of as modules?
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LaSAR
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| Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 10:32 am Post subject: |
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i will try that today.
although i see no reason why the modules have stopped working after 6 months of no problems. I recently upgraded to gentoo-sources-r10 but i tried going back to r9 and got the same problems so.. |
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krt
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 27 Nov 2002
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| Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 10:53 am Post subject: |
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the 8139's are particularly interesting NIC's. It might be dying (and hey, replacements are usually $5, assuming its not a built in!). Anyways, the driver for them is even more interesting - the correct thing to do is grab Donald Beckers 8139 Driver from here:
http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
once you're using that driver, you can use the diagnostic program on the same page. You'll be able to determine if the NIC is "going bad" or not.
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