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Benjamin Ness

08/25/2009 3:34 PM

post36670

Intel NIC driver i82544 not properly started during boot

I've got something weird going on with a particular system.  The NIC isn't properly started by enum-devices during 
startup.  Version is 6.4.

If I start it by hand "io-pkt-v4-hc -d i82544", or "mount -T io-pkt /lib/dll/devnp-i82544.so", everything works fine.

Checking in etc/system/enum/net, the device (vid=8086, did=109a) is listed properly with the correct driver.

Booting from the 6.4 install CD, the NIC is initialized fine.

Comparing all the boot scripts between the CD and the platform, they are all identical.  I can't seem to find any reason
 it isn't being started.

Thanks!

Benjamin Ness

08/26/2009 9:17 AM

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Re: Intel NIC driver i82544 not properly started during boot

Ok, it looks like if I run enum-devices -vvvvv from a terminal, the drivers are properly mounted.

However, if I do a verbose boot, I can see the drivers fail to mount when enum-devices runs during boot.

Any particular reason that it can succeed after boot, but not during?

Andrew Boyd(deleted)

08/26/2009 9:33 AM

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RE: Intel NIC driver i82544 not properly started during boot

Shot in the dark: during enumeration, could io-pkt be
picking up an older (eg io-net binary) driver which might
not support your nic?  It's a long shot, but ...

There are no less than FIVE different driver binaries
for 6.4.1 for the i82544 family of nics.  This can get 
very confusing.  Each different driver may support slightly 
different variants of the more than 60 different subtypes 
of the i82544 nic family.
 
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aboyd

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