Hi all,

I have a Shuttle SS40G mini system that has a RealTeak 8139/8139C network card integrated in the motherboard.

Previously I had Mandrake 9 on the machine working fine, but recently had to reinstall due to problems with the hard drive failing, and so installed Mandrake 9.1.

Everything is working fine, except for the network card.

The network card appears to be detected, and there is an alias line in the /etc/modules.conf for it, but DHCP fails, and if I assign a static IP I can not ping.

Any suggestions?

Attached are outputs from /proc/pci and ifconfig.

[-- ifconfig --]
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:1B:11:12:F4
inet addr:169.254.0.10 Bcast:169.254.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x5000

[-- /proc/pci --]
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 740 Host (rev 1).
Master Capable. Latency=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xebffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP (rev 0).
Master Capable. Latency=99. Min Gnt=12.
Bus 0, device 2, function 0:
ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 0).
Bus 0, device 2, function 2:
USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 7).
IRQ 20.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Max Lat=80.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec100000 [0xec100fff].
Bus 0, device 2, function 3:
USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#2) (rev 7).
IRQ 23.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Max Lat=80.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec101000 [0xec101fff].
Bus 0, device 2, function 5:
IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 208).
Master Capable. Latency=128.
I/O at 0x4000 [0x400f].
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 16).
IRQ 17.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24.
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff].
Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 16).
IRQ 18.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec102000 [0xec1020ff].
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
FireWire (IEEE 1394): Lucent Microelectronics FW323 (rev 4).
IRQ 19.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=24.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec103000 [0xec103fff].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: PCI device 1039:6325 (Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]) (rev 0).
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe7ffffff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec000000 [0xec01ffff].
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd07f].

(More Info Added)

[-- dmesg | grep eth0 --]
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xce8c5000, 00:30:1b:11:12:f4, IRQ 18
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000.
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000.
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.

Fixed it.

Problem appears to be the IRQ > 16.

Disable APIC in the BIOS and thats it. All detected and working wonderfully

what exactly is apic, and how would i disable it with a gigabyte ga-8simlh mobo?

APIC sort of gets round the problem of only have 16 hardware IRQs, and allows more. The problem is Linux seems to only understand 16 IRQs, so when APIC is on, and some devices are assigned IRQs higher, it freaks - like it didn't pick up my network card.

You should find an option in the BIOS:

To get into the bios you need to press a certain key while your machine is booting up - a line should appear breifly telling you which key to press.

You have to press it quickly mind, or you miss it.

Normally the key is something like: f2, del, esc or f10.

Andy

Well, I can get into BIOS n probs, but there doesnt seem to be any mention of apic.
I think this might be the problem though, since when my computer is booting (before lilo), it says the network interface has irq of 11, yet with ifconfig linux thinks its irq is 17

Had a quick look through your motherboards manual, and it doesnt appear that you can disable APIC on this board.

You may need to e-mail their tech support..

encode, you could also add 'noapic' to the 'append =' line in /etc/lilo.conf. For example, if your lilo.conf has a line saying:

append = "quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"

then change it to:

append = "quiet noapic devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"

This will achieve the same effect as turning it off in the BIOS.

Once you have modified /etc/lilo.conf, run (as root):

lilo

This will make the changes to your bootloader. Then when you re-boot, your hardware will be configured as though the apic was turned off.

Thanks for that....I tried it, and it works now!

my pc freezes while booting if disabling apic in bios

damn

Well, you could try adding 'noapic' to the 'append=' line in /ect/lilo.conf. Have you successfully installed Mandrake 9.1, or is this problem preventing that? In what stage of the boot process does your pc freeze?

a couple links about apic just for reference:

http://old.lwn.net/1998/0205/io-apic.html

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/...c/IO-APIC.mspx

I tried all of the above but the Network card Realtek 8139c under mandrake 9.1 is still giving me problems. It still says Network Watchdog timeout. But the same card under WindowsXP (I have dual boot) seems to be working fine! --- Somebody please help!!!!

I too am getting these errors on my network card Realtek 8139c. At the first install of FEDORA core 1 everything worked. After that the second boot onwards the card gives me the following errors. I am including the output of dmesg, lspci and /proc/pci for reference. Can anybody help me on this???

dmesg output
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Linux version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl (bhcompile@daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000007ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff3000 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
127MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 32752
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28656 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 JETWAY ) @ 0x000f7590
ACPI: RSDT (v001 JETWAY AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x07ff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 JETWAY AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x07ff3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 JETWAY AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1716.995 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3420.97 BogoMIPS
Memory: 125684k/131008k available (1503k kernel code, 4936k reserved, 1110k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb2d0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/3148] at 00:00.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:11.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda MA, hdb MA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc MA, hdd MA
hda: SAMSUNG SV4002H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG SV4012H, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c040cfc0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c040d100, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW DRIVE SW-224B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CREATIVE CD5221E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78242976 sectors (40060 MB) w/1945KiB Cache, CHS=4870/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: setmax LBA 78242976, native 66055248
hdb: 66055248 sectors (33820 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4111/255/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 159k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:50:32 Oct 29 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdc00, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,7), internal journal
Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1)
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: CD-R/RW SW-224B Rev: R205
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 no microcode found! (sig=f12, pflags=4)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc88e4000, 00:c0:26:a9:07:d0, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1023 buckets, 8184 max) - 292 bytes per conntrack
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc88fe000, 00:c0:26:a9:07:d0, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3
via82cxxx: Six channel audio available
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:11.5 to 64
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG48 (Unknown)
via82cxxx: Codec rate locked at 48Khz
via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xE000, IRQ 5
via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11
via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11
via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11

lspci output
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00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M266 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:08.0 Communication controller: Analog Devices SM56 PCI modem
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5465 [Laguna] (rev 02)

/etc/pci output
-------------------
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M266 Host Bridge (rev 0).
Master Capable. Latency=8.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe3ffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] (rev 0).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
Communication controller: Analog Devices SM56 PCI modem (rev 0).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=1.Max Lat=255.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe9001000 [0xe90010ff].
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 16).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd0ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe9000000 [0xe90000ff].
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge (rev 0).
Bus 0, device 17, function 1:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 6).
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd40f].
Bus 0, device 17, function 2:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 35).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f].
Bus 0, device 17, function 3:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#2) (rev 35).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc1f].
Bus 0, device 17, function 5:
Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 64).
IRQ 5.
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5465 [Laguna] (rev 2).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=16.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe5ffffff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7000000 [0xe700ffff].



I have tried giving "noapic" to grub at the command line . Also switched off apic at BIOS level but this problem is still occuring.

Thanks.

does it also happen when using a live distro, such as knoppix???

Yes, It happens with Knoppix too! Even on the first attempt. So what could FEDORA be doing in the first install that gets my card too work but later on (after a second boot) the same error comes. And why does the same hardware work properly in Windows XP? What is that windows is doing that Linux is not???