Bug 484505

Summary:	forcedeth: 2.6.29 killed the onboard NVidia ethernet
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Uri Sivan <tartif>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	kernel-maint, kmcmartin, madko, nphilipp, phil.ingram, quintela, uwe
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Description Uri Sivan 2009-02-07 15:43:07 UTC

After booting once into Fedora 11 alpha and rebooting normally half an hour later, the onboard NVidia ethernet (MCP51) stopped having a link permanently, regardless of OS. Rebooting and disconnecting the cable did not help. Re-flashing the BIOS fixed it.

This might be a problem in the 2.6.29 kernel. I found one similar occurrence:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/11/302

Points of notice:
1. Network seemed to work fine while in Fedora 11 alpha, only stopped working after reboot.
2. Board is Asus M2NPV-VM, lshal shows:

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_269'
  info.linux.driver = 'forcedeth'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer'  (string)
  info.product = 'MCP51 Ethernet Controller'  (string)
  info.subsystem = 'pci'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_269'  (string)
  info.vendor = 'nVidia Corporation'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'pci'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0'  (string)
  pci.device_class = 6  (0x6)  (int)
  pci.device_protocol = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  pci.device_subclass = 128  (0x80)  (int)
  pci.linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0'  (string)
  pci.product = 'MCP51 Ethernet Controller'  (string)
  pci.product_id = 617  (0x269)  (int)
  pci.subsys_product_id = 33130  (0x816a)  (int)
  pci.subsys_vendor = 'ASUSTeK Computer Inc.'  (string)
  pci.subsys_vendor_id = 4163  (0x1043)  (int)
  pci.vendor = 'nVidia Corporation'  (string)
  pci.vendor_id = 4318  (0x10de)  (int)

Comment 1 Phil 2009-04-01 21:42:00 UTC

I had a similar experience last night when attempting an install of F11 Beta.  I was in gfx mode and anaconda crashed, NetworkManager tried to start eth1 and hung completely.  2 minutes earlier I had done "ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10/24 up" and forgot that when i told NWMan to start eth0.  I did a warm reboot and a second go at the installation, the same crash happened, I tried to send a bug report and there were no link lights, even after reconnecting the cable to either NIC (dual onboard nvidia gig's) - i couldn't even manually assign an IP addr to the IF.  after doing a cold reboot, cutting the power and booting, the NIC's seemed to be back online.  It sounds like a firmware related issue...

Comment 2 Nils Philippsen 2009-04-03 10:16:47 UTC

Similar here, after using the Fedora 11 Beta Live medium for Radeon test day (2009-04-01). Ironically, ethtool showed a link when I booted into the Live medium again FWIW, but not on the F-10 which usually runs on the machine. Reflashing the BIOS de-bricked the NIC again, fortunately.

Comment 3 Kyle McMartin 2009-05-11 16:54:25 UTC

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1348127

Please try this build when it completes and see if your NIC continues to be bricked?

regards, Kyle

Comment 4 Edouard Bourguignon 2009-05-13 20:30:57 UTC

my NIC is not anymore bricked with kernel 2.6.29.3-140, now it's my video card :( bug #500728

Comment 5 Chuck Ebbert 2009-05-28 21:10:38 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> After booting once into Fedora 11 alpha and rebooting normally half an hour
> later, the onboard NVidia ethernet (MCP51) stopped having a link permanently,
> regardless of OS. Rebooting and disconnecting the cable did not help.
> Re-flashing the BIOS fixed it.
> 

When you say "regardless of OS," do you mean Windows fails to establish a link too?

Comment 6 Uri Sivan 2009-05-28 21:22:13 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> When you say "regardless of OS," do you mean Windows fails to establish a link
> too?  

Yes. There was no link in Fedora 10, which has always worked, in Fedora 11 alpha itself, or in Windows.

Comment 7 Kyle McMartin 2009-05-28 21:23:04 UTC

Chuck, looking at the posts at lkml on this issue, this does indeed seem to be the case.