Bug 73595

Summary:	gigE nic that comes with nforce3 mobo (marvell yukon) fails to work unless noapic set at boot
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	jeremy <jeremy>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	amd64
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description jeremy 2004-12-06 14:56:15 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-07 06:07:33 UTC

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?

Comment 2 jeremy 2004-12-07 06:15:02 UTC

Perhaps it's possible to add the noapic to the documentation?  This minor problem with this hardware cost me 3 days of install time.

Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-07 07:43:01 UTC

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?

Comment 4 jeremy 2004-12-07 08:29:25 UTC

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.