Sony Vaio VGN-UX390N Intel 945 chipset 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 16) Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 8203 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 221 Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] I/O ports at 3000 [size=256] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data <?> Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable+ Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Kernel driver in use: sky2 Kernel modules: sky2 This ultra-portable has an Etherport port only on its dock. It works fine when plugged into the dock, but it has this annoying behavior when unplugged from the dock where it gets stuck in a loop: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex, flow control none sky2 eth0: Link is down. ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex, flow control none sky2 eth0: Link is down. Kernel detects a link, and NetworkManager tries to DHCP on Ethernet. It fails and the link goes down. Then it detects a link and loops again. Kernels effected: kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 (Fedora 8 GA) kernel-2.6.24-2.fc9 (Fedora 9 Alpha)
Can you post the kernel boot messages when booting connected to the dock, and also from booting while disconnected?
Created attachment 293174 [details] dmesg-docked.txt
Created attachment 293175 [details] dmesg-undocked.txt
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