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Tiny Core Base => TCB Bugs => Topic started by: Tuftec on January 15, 2012, 06:40:36 AM

Title: TC 4.2 ethernet LAN issue
Post by: Tuftec on January 15, 2012, 06:40:36 AM

Hi Guys,

It appear that something has changed since TC 3.4.
I use an eBox PC for my TC testing.
For some reason the wired ethernet connection does not start up with the latest version.
My system uses the R6040 driver.
There appears to be some sort of conflict.
I suspect this might be a bug.

I have attached dmesg output files for both the TC3 and TC4 versions.


Peter.

Title: Re: TC 4.2 ethernet LAN issue
Post by: curaga on January 15, 2012, 07:13:43 AM

Yes, see

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=11584.0 (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=11584.0)

It's a bug in the r6040 driver, and still unfixed in the latest 3.0 stable version. It may be fixed in the latest linus' git (3.2 had a couple changes to that driver, but there were several more after 3.2).

In particular this looks relevant:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=817380e1d05534880a99d84a47cc5a2df111030d (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=817380e1d05534880a99d84a47cc5a2df111030d)

So if you can't try git, please see if applying that patch to our 3.0.3 kernel fixes it.