I'm trying to install Gentoo from the 2005.1 livecd iso on an old 486 laptop. It boots up fine and recognises all the hardware, including the network driver and dhcp settings. However if I ping a web site the machine hangs until I pop out the pcmcia network card. I've had to install SuSE linux for now, this seems to work ok.. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from 2005.1 universal iso disk 2. check network config using ifconfig 3. ping www.yahoo.com Actual Results: Machine hangs, can't break out of ping. Removing network card releases machine. Putting back in freezes machine. Expected Results: reply from www.yahoo.com Output from lspci immediatly after boot up. 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02) 0000:00:03.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6836/6860 CardBus Controller (rev 62) 0000:00:03.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6836/6860 CardBus Controller (rev 62) 0000:00:06.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65555 HiQVPro (rev c6) 0000:00:08.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01) 0000:00:08.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 0000:00:08.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 0000:00:08.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01) 0000:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Output from ifconfig immediatly after boot eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:FC:8C:B3:5F inet addr:192.168.0.137 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:684 (684.0 b) TX bytes:1240 (1.2 Kb) Interrupt:10 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) /var/log/messages Sep 21 19:39:01 livecd syslog-ng[3946]: syslog-ng version 1.6.5 starting Sep 21 19:39:01 livecd syslog-ng[3946]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/tty12 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Linux version 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 (root@nemo) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)) #1 SMP Fri Mar 18 17:53:40 UTC 2005 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd BIOS-e820: 00000000000ea400 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008000000 (usable) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd BIOS-e820: 00000000fffea400 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd 0MB HIGHMEM available. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd 128MB LOWMEM available. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd On node 0 totalpages: 32768 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Normal zone: 28672 pages, LIFO batch:7 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd DMI not present. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Allocating PCI resources starting at 08000000 (gap: 08000000:f7fea400) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Built 1 zonelists Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Kernel command line: initrd=gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs udev nodevfs cdroot BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo noapic Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd __iounmap: bad address c00fffd9 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic" Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01141000) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Initializing CPU#0 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Detected 266.734 MHz processor. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Using tsc for high-res timesource Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Wed Mar 2 20:22:02 EST 2005 : initialized Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Memory: 122376k/131072k available (2240k kernel code, 8236k reserved, 587k data, 1228k init, 0k highmem) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Calibrating delay loop... 523.26 BogoMIPS (lpj=261632) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Couldn't initialize miscdevice /dev/synth. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd CPU: L2 cache: 512K Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1464.17 usecs. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd task migration cache decay timeout: 2 msecs. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd SMP motherboard not detected. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Brought up 1 CPUs Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd CPU0 attaching sched-domain: Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd domain 0: span 01 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd groups: 01 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd domain 1: span 01 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd groups: 01 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Freeing initrd memory: 2412k freed Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd NET: Registered protocol family 16 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd EISA bus registered Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9f4, last bus=0 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: Using configuration type 1 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd SCSI subsystem initialized Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: Probing PCI hardware Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:08.0 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:03.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:03.0 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:03.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:08.2 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd inotify device minor=63 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Squashfs 2.1 (released 2004/12/10) (C) 2002-2004 Phillip Lougher Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Initializing Cryptographic API Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse on isa0060/serio1 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd io scheduler noop registered Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd io scheduler deadline registered Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:08.1 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PIIX4: chipset revision 1 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcf8-0xfcff, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Probing IDE interface ide0... Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd hda: TOSHIBA MK6409MAV, ATA DISK drive Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Probing IDE interface ide1... Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd hdc: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Probing IDE interface ide2... Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Probing IDE interface ide3... Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Probing IDE interface ide4... Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Probing IDE interface ide5... Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd hda: max request size: 128KiB Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd hda: 12685680 sectors (6495 MB), CHS=13424/15/63, UDMA(33) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd hda: cache flushes not supported Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd CAPI Subsystem Rev 1.1.2.8 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd EISA: Detected 0 cards. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd NET: Registered protocol family 2 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd NET: Registered protocol family 1 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd NET: Registered protocol family 17 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Freeing unused kernel memory: 1228k freed Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd usbcore: registered new driver usbfs Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd usbcore: registered new driver hub Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd usbcore: registered new driver hiddev Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd usbcore: registered new driver usbhid Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd USB Mass Storage support registered. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:08.2 (0000 -> 0001) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:08.2 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:08.2 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: UHCI Host Controller Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, io base 0xfcc0 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd uhci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd sl811: driver sl811-hcd, 15 Dec 2004 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd dm_snapshot: Unknown symbol dm_table_get_size Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd libata version 1.10 loaded. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ReiserFS: hdc: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hdc Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdc. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hdc. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on hdc Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdc. Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 Sep 21 19:39:02 livecd ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Sep 21 19:39:20 livecd parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP] Sep 21 19:39:29 livecd Linux Kernel Card Services Sep 21 19:39:29 livecd options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] Sep 21 19:39:29 livecd PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:03.0 Sep 21 19:39:29 livecd Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.0 [0979:6860] Sep 21 19:39:29 livecd Yenta O2: res at 0x94/0xD4: 88/00 Sep 21 19:39:29 livecd Yenta O2: enabling read prefetch/write burst Sep 21 19:39:29 livecd Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x02b8, PCI irq 10 Sep 21 19:39:29 livecd Socket status: 30000007 Sep 21 19:39:30 livecd PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:03.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask Sep 21 19:39:30 livecd PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered Sep 21 19:39:30 livecd PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:03.1 Sep 21 19:39:30 livecd Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.1 [0979:6860] Sep 21 19:39:30 livecd Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x02b8, PCI irq 10 Sep 21 19:39:30 livecd Socket status: 30000821 Sep 21 19:39:33 livecd 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 Sep 21 19:39:33 livecd PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:00.0 (0000 -> 0003) Sep 21 19:39:33 livecd PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64 Sep 21 19:39:33 livecd eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc88f0000, 00:50:fc:8c:b3:5f, IRQ 10 Sep 21 19:39:33 livecd eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' Sep 21 19:39:34 livecd eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 ------ At this point I yanked the card..... Sep 21 20:00:54 livecd dhcpcd[4513]: dhcpRelease: sendto: No such device Sep 21 20:00:54 livecd dhcpcd[4513]: arpRelease: sendto: No such device Sep 21 20:00:55 livecd dhcpcd[4513]: terminating on signal 10 Sep 21 20:00:55 livecd dhcpcd[4513]: dhcpStop: ioctl SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Sep 21 20:00:55 livecd dhcpcd[4513]: dhcpStop: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such deviceSep 21
There's two realtek drivers... try rmmod 8139too and modprobe 8139cp and see if it works.
(In reply to comment #1) > There's two realtek drivers... try rmmod 8139too and modprobe 8139cp and see if > it works. I tried that but modprobe reported that the driver was incompatible with the device and to try the 8139too driver instead. The SuSE install used the 8139too driver with no problems.
After many hours rebuilding kernels etc.... I managed to get it working by setting the kernel boot parameter pci=biosirq Many thanks for all those who spent time on this.
Hrrrmn... glad to hear that you got it working... and thanks for the information.
