Bug 399

Summary: some ethernet cards, eg. netgear FA311 does not work if acpi is on with 2.5.62
Product: ACPI Reporter: Shaoning Xiao (snxiao)
Component: Config-InterruptsAssignee: Andy Grover (andrew.grover)
Status: REJECTED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.5.62 Subsystem:
Regression: --- Bisected commit-id:

Description Shaoning Xiao 2003-02-24 07:29:09 UTC 
Distribution: gentoo linux
Hardware Environment: Athlon xp,  Abit KX311 motherboard
Software Environment: gcc 3.2.1
Problem Description:  netgear FA311 NIC uses natsemi driver. If acpi is on,
the driver can be load,  however, it does not work with DHCP

Steps to reproduce: On a computer with netgear FA311 ethernet card, use kernel
2.5.62 with  "natsemi" and "acpi" compiled in the kernel. reboot, the NIC will
not work.
However, when if pass the option "acpi=off" to the kernel when reboot, the
NIC will work.  

There are some other kernels which also have this problem, for example 2.5.61.

It seems there are some other ethernet cards  also have trouble with acpi for
development kernel.
Comment 1 Andy Grover 2003-02-24 09:31:54 UTC 
marking normal priority, use acpi=off to workaround.
Comment 2 Dave Jones 2003-03-17 15:34:01 UTC 
Note, this is likely related to (or could even be the same as) bug #71. This
also bites me with Realtek 8139's, and I think I saw it on 3coms too. This
really is a showstopper IMO.
Comment 3 Andy Grover 2003-03-17 16:22:39 UTC 
I agree, this is THE bug.

not going to mark it dupe just yet, just in case.
Comment 4 Andy Grover 2003-05-21 14:13:34 UTC 
I lied, marking a dupe of bug #71

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71 ***