Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problem

[Peter Alfredsen <peter.alfredsen@gmail.com>]

On Monday 12 November 2007, Fabio wrote:
> Thank you very much Peter. This is my ethernet card:
>
> 82557/8/9 Ethernet pro 100

There are two ethernet cards in your machine, as evidenced by the error 
message "eth1: PHY reset until link up". Enumeration starts at eth0, then 
eth1, etc. What is the other?
The card you list is supported by the eepro100 kernel module. That module 
nowhere mentions the error you are receiving. The only modules that do are 
sis190 and r8169:
sis190.c: net_link(tp, KERN_WARNING "%s: PHY reset until link up.\n",
r8169.c: printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: PHY reset until link up\n", dev->name);

Take note of the punctuation of the above messages. If indeed you have quoted 
the error message correctly, it would indicate that you have a r8169-based 
card in your machine.

Does any other live-cds boot for you? If yes, post the output of the following 
commands:
lspci
lspci -n
ifconfig
lsmod

> I downloaded the latest cd minimal installation image for amd64.
> So what do you suggest me to do?

By latest minimal installation image, do you 
mean "install-amd64-minimal-2007.0.iso" as available from: 
http://mirror.ing.unibo.it/gentoo/releases/amd64/2007.0/installcd/install-amd64-minimal-2007.0.iso
?

The reason I'm making doubly sure that it is indeed the latest live-cd, is 
that the last time the "PHY reset until link up" error led to failures such 
as yours was many kernel revisions ago.

That being said, there are some known problems with the r8169-based cards. For 
one, they will retain state when you reboot from windows. To test if that is 
what is causing this, power off your machine and pull the plug, wait 1 
minute, re-insert power cord and boot.

Also, the bug at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6807 has some of 
the characteristics you describe. It was hopefully fixed in kernel 2.6.23. 
You could try to install Gentoo from a 2.6.23-based livecd such as paldo at:
http://www.paldo.org/
The iso is at:
http://www.paldo.org/paldo-live-cd-x86_64-stable.iso

Gentoo only needs very few tools to be installed and most live-cds provide 
them. 

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/PA
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