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ancrouter

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Registered: 2011-10-06

Posts: 13

Post install issue: network not working

Hi. I've installed arch and after install just issued full system upgrade (pacman -Syu). But after reboot, my network is not working anymore  (can't ping even my gateway). In my rc.conf i have line

interface=eth0

so i am using dhcp. But as i said, network was working before full system upgrade (packages were downloaded). I think something must be wrong with module b44. This is output of dmesg:

b44 ssb1:0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
b44 ssb1:0: eth0: Flow control is off for for TX and off for RX
b44 ssb1:0: eth0: powering down PHY
b44 ssb1:0: eth0: Link is down
b44 ssb1:0: eth0: powering down PHY
b44 ssb1:0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
b44 ssb1:0: eth0: Flow control is off for for TX and off for RX
b44 ssb1:0: eth0: powering down PHY
b44 ssb1:0: eth0: Link is down
b44 ssb1:0: eth0: powering down PHY

This keeps repeating every few seconds. I tried manually restart network via /etc/rc.d/network restart, but it's still not working.

Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 1,429

Re: Post install issue: network not working

The network restarts without error?
Weird, do you see anything in pacman.log for that upgrade when processing the hooks?
Try unloading (modprobe -r b44) and loading (modprobe -i -v b44)  the driver and look in the logs again then perhaps.