[Bug 56885] e1000 driver not working properly on x86_64?

[Herbert V. Riedel]

Public bug reported:


on a freshly installed dapper/x86_64 install, the e1000 supported intel  Intel Pro/1000 PT
Server NIC was detected and configured, link gets detected, but it doesn't seem to receive ethernet frames (although the RX packet counters do increase, but no rx frame shows up in tcpdump)

alas it's a remote system which I don't have physical access to right
now, so I can't easily try out a 32bit kernel, in order to verify my
suspicion that it's simply a 64bit-bug kernel driver bug...


processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 36
model name      : AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-37
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 803.680
cache size      : 1024 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm
bogomips        : 1609.81
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc


0000:00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
        Memory behind bridge: f7000000-f8ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000030000000-0000000030000000
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 107d (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1082
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 225
        Memory at f8020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        I/O ports at b000 [size=32]
        Expansion ROM at 30000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

Linux version 2.6.15-26-amd64-generic (buildd at king) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 3 02:52:35 UTC 2006
[..]

Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.0.33-k2
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC5] enabled at IRQ 16
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [APC5] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 225
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
e1000: 0000:02:00.0: e1000_probe: (PCI Express:2.5Gb/s:Width x1) 00:15:17:0b:ff:e5
e1000: eth2: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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e1000 driver not working properly on x86_64?
https://launchpad.net/bugs/56885