When booting with the 2004.3 livecd, my onboard nic (marvell yukon) failed to send/recv any traffic. The same results occurred with the 2004.3-r1 livecd. My motherboard is a gigabyte k8ns pro. I tried the sk98lin and the forcedeth mod with neither having any luck. I also tried _many_ combinations of the module parameters with no luck. I was able to overcome this problem by booting the livecd with "gentoo noapic" and then after it had booted, doing "modprobe sk98lin" . Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. insert livecd 2. boot 3. modprobe sk98lin Actual Results: the nic would not send or recv packets. Expected Results: sent and received packets.
I'm just curious, but what exactly do you want us to *do* about this? We cannot disable apic, because it is enabled by default on any SMP kernel. You have a solution, which is using "noapic", so what should we do with this?
Perhaps it's possible to add the noapic to the documentation? This minor problem with this hardware cost me 3 days of install time.
You mean like here? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=2 ...or when you press F3 at booting the LiveCD?
I'm just saying I believe that since this is apparently a recurring bug with MANY gigabyte motherboard users, a more substantial note would be nice to have than "disable apic (try if having hardware problems nics,scsi,etc)" in a small font. I was pointed to this afterward and had even read it. I admit I missed it the first time. I'm content that the problem is resolved, and I'm sure others who have these oddball problems will find this ticket or the forum posting.
