dhcpcd drops "route?" to network during install phase. I am behind a Linksys 4-port router runnning DHCP and other machines on the network are able to request and obtain new ip's. I have tried: dhcpcd eth0 (no success) dhcpcd -B eth0 (no success) dmesg gives me: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out dhcpcd -d eth0 : broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER : timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. load liveCD and begin install process 2. work through install instructions 3. eth0 drops the connection at different times but usually during emerge -u system Actual Results: eth0 dropped its connection Expected Results: eth0 should have maintained its connection since I lost the connection to the internet on the machine that I am trying to install linux on, I am unable to paste emerge info here... System name: 2.4.21-rc6-up sparc64 sun4u if you need more information than that please let me know thanks.
Can you please post the output of `dmesg | grep eth0`? According to a Google search for 'NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out' it looks like you simply got a bad NIC. Did you try to use another NIC?
Maybe thats related to this bug: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=59002
This is (probably) not a bad NIC. There is a known bug affecting ultra1e hme. A workaround exists in sparc-sources but the boot cd kernel may not have been compiled with it. Unless someone has seen this workaround cause problems on non-U1E systems, I'm inclined to change sparc-sources to include it unconditionally, rather than depending on USE=ultra1. This will ensure it gets into the boot cd kernels as well.
What LiveCD are you using? The LiveCD currently does not use the Ultra1 HME patch. IIRC, it causes problems on non-ultra1s, but I will test here to verify.
I've applied the ultra1 patch to my ultra2's kernel and have downloaded 542MB of data and portage's md5 checksums have not noticed any corruption. So it seems the patch is safe to use on the ISO kernel. I'll add it into the next version.
I've added a kernel patch to the latest experimental LiveCD (gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc4-11Aug2003.iso.bz2) which should now be on the mirrors. Please test and let me know if it works any better for you. Thanks.
Hi, Have you had a chance to try the fix? Thanks
Need to hear back from bug reporter as i'm unable to replicate.
