Fedora 10 on Mini 2140 Not Detecting Ethernet Adapter

[jon3k]

Along with the problem of it only booting 1 times out of 10 to fedora (grub loads, apparently attempts to boot the fedora kernel and sits there with a blinking cursor indefinitely) the only problem I've got is with this marvell ethernet adapter.

Nothing in lspci, dmesg or syslog about it. Has anyone gotten it working with Fedora?

[jon3k]

scratch that, the adapter doesn't "exist" until it's plugged in ... strange :?

[Lebenskuenstler]

Indeed. Please consider writing a bugreport http://bugzilla.redhat.com .
May you could have a look, if its goes with F11 (rawhide) better, which has alreadt the newer kernel.

Cheers,.

LK

[mikez]

scratch that, the adapter doesn't "exist" until it's plugged in ... strange :?

Handling of the PHY interface hardware - send in a bug report, your not the first.

[kd]

same here with Ubuntu

[maxwax]

Along with the problem of it only booting 1 times out of 10 to fedora (grub loads, apparently attempts to boot the fedora kernel and sits there with a blinking cursor indefinitely) the only problem I've got is with this marvell ethernet adapter.

Nothing in lspci, dmesg or syslog about it. Has anyone gotten it working with Fedora?

To overcome the problem of Fedora 10 not booting reliably, crashing or hanging during the boot process, I experimented until I found that adding the boot parameter:

boot_delay=5

Seems to resolve this problem. Boot to the grub menu, then use the 'a' command on a kernel to remove the 'quiet' parameter and add boot_delay=5. This will let you see a large amount of kernel boot status information and should slow down the boot problem to avoid some sort of issue causing hangs.

I've reported this to Redhat who reported to me that this should be fixed in 2.6.29 (but has not been fixed in the 2.6.27 kernels Fedora 10 is running.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494596