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Bug 13739 - boot from CD hangs on "Scanning eth16i..."
Summary: boot from CD hangs on "Scanning eth16i..."
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-01-11 15:02 UTC by Barry Tolnas
Modified: 2005-03-25 11:24 UTC (History)
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Description Barry Tolnas 2003-01-11 15:02:37 UTC 
After entering runlevel 3 and scanning for ethernet adapters, the system 
hangs indefinitely after printing "Scanning eth16i...".  This happened on an 
Athlon-XP system with an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with two 
onboard ethernet adapters:

1) NVidia MAC + Realtek 8201BL PHY
2) 3Com MAC + BroadCom AC101L PHY

Reseting the system, disabling the 3Com adapter in BIOS, and using the 
Nvidia adapter works around the problem.
Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-01-11 21:11:40 UTC 
Interesting. Thanks for the bug report. I think this eth16i driver is causing
some problems for people.
Comment 2 Thomas W. Holt Jr. 2003-02-01 18:25:43 UTC 
Seeing the same thing on an HP Brio BA200

Celeron 433Mhz
Diamond Viper 550 PCI video
tulip based NIC, Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32

Locks up with the on board video too
Comment 3 AJ Penninga 2003-02-25 23:38:57 UTC 
Same thing
AMD Athlon (classic) 650 Mhz
Gigabyte motherboard
3com 10/100 network card
Comment 4 AJ Penninga 2003-02-25 23:39:12 UTC 
Same thing
AMD Athlon (classic) 650 Mhz
Gigabyte motherboard
3com 10/100 network card
Comment 5 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-03-14 21:21:30 UTC 
latest experimental livecd has actual hw detection, 
should fix this. reopen if needed
Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-25 11:24:13 UTC 
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.