New: sky2 occasionally fails to recognize device on cold boot

Bugme-new Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message May 29, 2009 1 message not in the archive

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Quoted 31 lines · On Thu, 28 May 2009 16:26:36 GMT [email protected] wrote:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13398
           Summary: sky2 occasionally fails to recognize device on cold
                    boot
           Product: Drivers
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 2.6.29
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Network
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]
        Regression: No
occasionally the sky2 module will report in dmesg
sky2 0000:02:00.0: unsupported chip type 0xff
on a cold boot, unloading and reloading the module gives the same error.
the network adapter is unusable. A warm reboot and the network adapter is usable and the sky2 module reports success.
This is in a hp 1035nr netbook with, according to lspci, Marvell 88E8040 PCE-E Fast Ethernet Controller