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Thread ID: 106554 2010-01-13 10:13:00 Question for the Linux gurus.... (PCI-E NIC causing all sorts of trouble) Agent_24 (57) Press F1
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848407 2010-01-14 04:24:00 I don't see much point in asking on the MSI forum just yet, what I was trying to establish was what exactly the errors in my dmesg output I posted were. Agent_24 (57)
848408 2010-01-14 04:37:00 ...No IPv6 router, just IPv4. I assume that message is normal since I don't have IPv6?


*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 03
serial: 00:24:21:23:14:d9
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:30 ioport:c800(size=256) memory:f8fff000-f8ffffff(prefetchable) memory:f8ff8000-f8ffbfff(prefetchable) memory:fe9e0000-fe9fffff(prefetchable)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: VT6120/VT6121/VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 82
serial: 00:00:00:00:00:04
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=via-velocity driverversion=1.14 duplex=full ip=192.168.0.4 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:17 ioport:e800(size=256) memory:febffc00-febffcff

It is using the via-velocity driver, which I have had no experience with. The driver seems to be up-to-date.

It should not be looking for an IPv6 router by default, or you should be able to turn off this default behaviour. Unfortunately there is no manpage explaining how to turn this behaviour off.

Sorry, that's all I got to help you with.
vinref (6194)
848409 2010-01-14 05:13:00 Why not its an MSI mobo isnt it. You'll probably find an answer quicker there than here Speedy Gonzales (78)
848410 2010-01-14 05:38:00 Unfortunately there is no manpage explaining how to turn this behaviour off.No man perhaps, but woman with google How To Disable The IPv6 Protocol (www.cyberciti.biz). :p

I had to disable IPv6 when it first got enabled by default on Fedora (a few years ago) as it messed up my connection. I haven't had to disable it in later releases though.
Jen (38)
848411 2010-01-14 10:13:00 No man perhaps, but woman with google How To Disable The IPv6 Protocol (www.cyberciti.biz). :p

I had to disable IPv6 when it first got enabled by default on Fedora (a few years ago) as it messed up my connection. I haven't had to disable it in later releases though.

Bahahaha. I googled and googled for that sort of thing but got nothing.
vinref (6194)
848412 2010-01-14 10:47:00 Why not its an MSI mobo isnt it. You'll probably find an answer quicker there than here

Yes but I though the dmesg log was important, thought I'd ask about it as a Linux question rather than an MSI Motherboard question.

I had hopes that someone might read it, and say "Aah! Now what you've got there is this that and the other thing, do this to fix it etc. I guess that isn't the case. Although it seemed a hell of a lot more descriptive than anything I would have been able to get out of Windows...


No man perhaps, but woman with google How To Disable The IPv6 Protocol (www.cyberciti.biz). :p

I had to disable IPv6 when it first got enabled by default on Fedora (a few years ago) as it messed up my connection. I haven't had to disable it in later releases though.

What did it mess up? I doubt it was anything as spectacular as my problems, though?

There could be something in what you say though, Vista also has IPv6 support by default, although the same isn't true with XP, which I also had problems in...

One thing that strikes me as weird is the MAC address. 00:00:00:00:00:04 just doesn't seem usual.
Agent_24 (57)
848413 2010-01-14 11:15:00 ...One thing that strikes me as weird is the MAC address. 00:00:00:00:00:04 just doesn't seem usual.

Errr. I missed that too. Yes, the MAC address does not look right.
vinref (6194)
848414 2010-01-15 04:27:00 From the look of it you may be having an IRQ conflict with your sound device.

Can you post an output from:
cat /proc/interrupts
ughnz (8297)
848415 2010-01-15 05:35:00 CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
0: 89 87 883 22462 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 0 1 14 596 IO-APIC-edge i8042
4: 0 0 0 2 IO-APIC-edge
6: 0 0 0 4 IO-APIC-edge floppy
7: 1 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge
8: 0 0 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
14: 1 40 577 1905 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp
15: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp
16: 0 0 6 1553 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3, ohci_hcd:usb4, HDA Intel
17: 0 1 34 2607 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, eth1
18: 0 5 55 2375 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb5, ohci_hcd:usb6, ohci_hcd:usb7, ohci1394, nvidia
19: 0 36 585 7542 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2
24: 10755 0 0 0 HPET_MSI-edge hpet2
29: 0 2 201 7723 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
30: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
NMI: 0 0 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 80 8607 8940 4598 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
CNT: 0 0 0 0 Performance counter interrupts
PND: 0 0 0 0 Performance pending work
RES: 8567 9836 8081 7523 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 9734 9049 5285 5800 Function call interrupts
TLB: 698 559 640 463 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 1 1 1 1 Machine check polls
ERR: 1
MIS: 0
Agent_24 (57)
848416 2010-01-16 00:15:00 Umm.. From the look of the dmesg you posted the system is getting tied up processing IRQ requests. Are you using the irqbalance daemon?

Also it looks like you are using APIC, have you tried adding the noapic and nolapic options to the kernel at boot?

If you boot up with the options mentioned above and then look at another dump of /proc/interrupts it will show a better indication of what is sharing with what.
ughnz (8297)
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