Sending DHCP requests .... timed out

[Gavin Tran]

Hi Michael,

On 12/27/05, Michael Tautschnig <michael.tautschnig at zt-consulting.com> wrote:

> > 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...

Here is dmesg from my install server, I use master server with clients
with Marvell Yukon Gigabit , and Intel Pro 10/100 (for outside)

sk98lin: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
sk98lin: Network Device Driver v8.28.1.3
(C)Copyright 1999-2005 Marvell(R).
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
eth1: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
     PrefPort:A  RlmtMode:Check Link State

e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02cc960(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth1: network connection up using port A
   speed:           1000
   autonegotiation: yes
   duplex mode:     full
   flowctrl:        symmetric
   role:            master
   irq moderation:  disabled
   tcp offload:     enabled
   scatter-gather:  enabled
   tx-checksum:     enabled
   rx-checksum:     enabled
   rx-polling:      enabled

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And here is my lspci

0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.:
Unknown device 4362 (rev 19)
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro
100] (rev 0c)

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When I booted a client , it got kernel from install server, and pour
out sonething like this :

------------------------------------------------
sk98lin: Network Driver Device v8.28.13
(C) Copyright 1999-2005 Marvell (R)
eth1: Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000BaseT-Adapter
     PrefPort: A RlmtMode: Check Link State
forcedeth.c : Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver Version 0.29
.
.
.
Sending DHCP Requests ..........timed out !
IP-Config: Reopening network devices

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As suggested before, I disabled FireWire in BIOS.

Could you tell me what version of kernel and Marvell Yukon Driver you
used to install those machines.

Thanks,

Gavin