[Solved] Last kernel update (2007-05-06) - no network, no audio

ziggy · 2007-05-07 11:32:51

I did kernel update last night and now I don't have networking and no audio - seems like my network and audio cards just disappeared from my system
Before this update everything was up and running.

Can somebody help with this, please?
I'm quite new to Linux, so don't know what could help to determine this problem?
Should I paste output of lsmod, lspci, hwdetect, dmesg, something else?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by ziggy (2007-06-02 18:43:15)

pelle.k · 2007-05-07 12:25:33

Roll back to the previous kernel, plus kernel modules (such as nvidia, ndiswrapper or whatever package....) until these things are resolved.
So, cd to /var/cache/pacman/pkg and ls "kernel*" and whetever else you need to roll back to (nvidia-1.0* etc) and just replace them with pacman -U.

I myself, did this to roll back;

pacman -U kernel26-2.6.20.7-2.pkg.tar.gz ndiswrapper-1.37-1.pkg.tar.gz nvidia-1.0.9755-1.pkg.tar.gz

You might too, if these packages is still in your cache...
As always, you can check /var/log/pacman.log to see what updates were made, as a reference when rolling back.

I'm quite certain the kernel maintainers would like to know what hardware you own. The output of lspci -vv will tell you exactly what devices you've got. So Give us the output from network interface, and audio card...

cactus · 2007-05-07 15:25:25

yeah. the latest kernel update caused one box to not boot.
I booted it with a livecd, mounted partitions manually and chrooted to them, to build initrd images, etc. The images built, but still didn't work.
I guess I will try to roll back the kernel and see if that helps.

ziggy · 2007-05-07 19:19:44

pelle.k wrote:

Roll back to the previous kernel, plus kernel modules (such as nvidia, ndiswrapper or whatever package....) until these things are resolved.
So, cd to /var/cache/pacman/pkg and ls "kernel*" and whetever else you need to roll back to (nvidia-1.0* etc) and just replace them with pacman -U.

Thanks for this advice, pelle.k! Seems it was not only kernel, but something related to udev as well. I had to spend a couple of hours to get back my networking (by restoring udev rules to previous state).
I was dumb enough and cleaned all cache shortly before update. Thanks God, I found missing packages on FTP server (seems they are keeping one version below current, what is good and I'm "back in the business"
Only problem I afraid of, is future updates. Seems I have to wait at least a couple of months before try next update...

pelle.k wrote:

I'm quite certain the kernel maintainers would like to know what hardware you own. The output of lspci -vv will tell you exactly what devices you've got. So Give us the output from network interface, and audio card...

And here is what you are asking for - result of lspci -vv :

05:04.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Asus)
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
    Latency: 64 (5750ns min, 7750ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
    Region 0: Memory at feaf4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

    Region 1: I/O ports at b800 [size=256]
    Expansion ROM at 88000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
    Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 4364 (rev 12)
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81f8
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
    Region 0: Memory at fe8fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Region 2: I/O ports at 9800 [size=256]
    Expansion ROM at fe8c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
    Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
    Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
    Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
        Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag-
        Device: Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited
        Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd-
        Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
        Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
        Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
        Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Port 0
        Link: Latency L0s <256ns, L1 unlimited
        Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 128 bytes CommClk+ ExtSynch-
        Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81ec
    Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
    Region 0: Memory at febf8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
    Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
        Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag-
        Device: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
        Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
        Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
        Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
        Link: Supported Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Port 0
        Link: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
        Link: ASPM Disabled CommClk- ExtSynch-
        Link: Speed unknown, Width x0

Thanks again for the help! You saved my time, as I wanted to reinstall my PC .

sen · 2007-05-08 20:35:54

Kernel26 2.6.21.1-8 fails for me as well.. various kernel-modules couldn't be loaded.

ziggy · 2007-06-02 18:42:35

Just dared to update to kernel 2.6.21.3-2.
Strange situation - after first reboot no sound and network again, but when I rebooted second time - everything is working properly!
I didn't get where the problem was as I'm quite new to Linux, but most important is that my audio and network is working again.
Maybe somebody could explain this strange case?

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#1 2007-05-07 11:32:51

[Solved] Last kernel update (2007-05-06) - no network, no audio

#2 2007-05-07 12:25:33

Re: [Solved] Last kernel update (2007-05-06) - no network, no audio

#3 2007-05-07 15:25:25

Re: [Solved] Last kernel update (2007-05-06) - no network, no audio

#4 2007-05-07 19:19:44

Re: [Solved] Last kernel update (2007-05-06) - no network, no audio

#5 2007-05-08 20:35:54

Re: [Solved] Last kernel update (2007-05-06) - no network, no audio

#6 2007-06-02 18:42:35

Re: [Solved] Last kernel update (2007-05-06) - no network, no audio

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