On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 13:07 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > Folks, > > Motherboard: P5GC-MX/1333, onboard Attansic L2 NIC chip > > Earlier I reported a nightmarish experience trying to get my onboard Attansic > L2 NIC working after compiling the source code for it, installing it, and so > on and could not figure out why the NIC was not turning on the phyiscal link. > > I think I understand the symptoms but not the underlying cause. > > I reported in my earlier post, that I blamed the twisted pair cable but it > turns out this was not the problem. The cabled is fine. I had to go to my > garbage can to retrieve the cable I almost threw out. > > I can repeatedly prove (at least to myself), that under a multiboot situation, > if you boot using w2000/XP, M$ turns ON/OFF/ON the link when coming up and > when it is shutdown/rebooted, it disables the link. It somehow turns the NIC > OFF on reboot/shutdown. > > When you bootup Fedora, Fedora goes along as it normally does, probes eth0, > but FAILS to turn ON the link. You CANNOT get Fedora to bring up the link no > matter what you do. The ONLY way to get the link back is to physically power > off the power supply because the motherboard always get's it's power unless > the PS itself is turned off and until the power drains out. > > Only then, you can bring up Fedora's OS and get the NIC link to work. > > I wonder if M$ plugs microcode into the Attansic L2 chip that renders Fedora > unable to turn on the link OR the code is missing from the Fedora networking > process to turn ON the link. > > Can someone in development look into this and let me know what is going on? > > At the moment, I have a temporary solution for now but I'd like to make sure > no other helpless chap faces this problem like I did for weeks trying to > figure this out. Does "iwconfig wlan0 txpower on" turn on your card? Is there a modprobe option you need? "modinfo name-of-driver" should show you those. On my iwl4965, there's an option: options iwl4965 disable=1 which would turn off the radio. By default it's on ("disable=0"). Perhaps yours is backwards? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - What's small, yellow and very, VERY dangerous? The root canary! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list