Sending DHCP requests .... timed out

[Michael Tautschnig]

> On 26/12/05, Michael Tautschnig <michael.tautschnig at zt-consulting.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > After a lot of time being debugged, I found out that it was problem
> > > with Marvell Yukon 8053 Gigabit Ethernet.
> 
> > Are you sure that your NIC has been detected by linux? I've got some of these
> > too and it works without any problems using recent kernels; Do you see anything
> > like:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> By recent how recent do you mean?  I have a number of these Marvell
> Yukon NICS (onboard) on various ASUS boards and usually give up on
> them for PXE and just put another GB NIC in... In may case it wasn't
> worth the time to get it to work when I had a box of GB nics sitting
> there, I just disabled them in the BIOS.
>

In this case it was a 2.6.11.11, but I think it worked fine using 2.6.8 too.
lspci tells me 

0000:02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12)

on an ASUS board. Do you see the dmesg-output I mentioned earlier? Or do you see

eth0: 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940)
      PrefPort:A  RlmtMode:Check Link State

? If you do see that, but not the output posted before, the kernel is most
likely trying to send DHCP requests to some firewire port...

HTH,
Michael
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