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Bug 15807 - 8139too ethernet driver may fail if ACPI is used with PCI
Summary: 8139too ethernet driver may fail if ACPI is used with PCI
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High blocker (vote)
Assignee: Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-02-16 17:33 UTC by Art Green
Modified: 2003-04-28 23:19 UTC (History)
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Description Art Green 2003-02-16 17:33:16 UTC 
When trying to install Gentoo on a box with a network card that requires the
8139too driver, the driver may fail if the ACPI is used.  The card works
correctly under RedHat and Windows.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot LiveCD
2.modprobe 8139too
3.configure eth0 correctly
4.Attempt to ping something. 

Actual Results:  
Logs will show multiple transmission failures with eth0.  No traffic is seen on
the network from a sniffer.

Expected Results:  
In the above example, traffic should be broadcast onto the network.

I think RedHat has patched the 8139too driver to correct this.  This has also
been posted in several forums and newsgroups.
Comment 1 Art Green 2003-04-28 10:47:56 UTC 
This now works correctly under 1.4 rc4.  Autodetection works too! Woot!
Comment 2 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-04-28 23:19:52 UTC 
closing as per user. 
 
Jay