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artelius

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Registered: 2015-11-10

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e1000e driver hangs the system. Don't need it. Any point debugging?

I just installed Arch on some old and rare "media centre" type hardware (previously running Windows XP).

I couldn't get it to boot; it would sometimes hang without any output, and other times would panic. After a bit of blacklist trial and error I found that the e1000e driver is the culprit.

If I blacklist the driver, and then run modprobe e1000e after boot is complete, the system immediately hangs or panics.

I have tried downgrading to kernel versions 4.0.7-2 and 3.19.3-3, both have the same problem.

However, the machine has two ethernet ports, the other port uses the sky2 driver without problems. I don't need both ethernet ports.

I am happy to spend a bit of time debugging, but only if it's likely to be of some value to the community. So in this case (old, rare hardware), is there a point to debugging hardware I don't need?

nomorewindows

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Re: e1000e driver hangs the system. Don't need it. Any point debugging?

What is the output of lspci?

You could also put options line for the module to debug=1.

Last edited by nomorewindows (2015-11-11 16:43:56)

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Re: e1000e driver hangs the system. Don't need it. Any point debugging?

Or blacklist the offending module and see if you are stable.  If the hardware is unneeded problem solved.

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