[Bug 39862] [Flight 6] Marvell ethernet interface doesn' t work after reboot

[Graeme Hewson]

Public bug reported:

Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
I have a Toshiba Tecra M3 laptop.  lshw shows the wired interface as:

product: 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

After a cold boot, the interface works fine.  However, if the machine is
rebooted, the interface fails to work.  For instance, Ethereal running
on another machine doesn't see any of the expected DHCP broadcasts from
the laptop.

This is a dual-boot machine, and if Windows is booted instead after
Kubuntu is shut down, the same problem occurs.  This suggests the
problem is something to do with what happens during shutdown.

Following a cold or warm boot, "ethtool -i eth1" shows:

driver: sky2
version: 1.1
firmware-version: N/A
bus-info: 0000:02:00.0

Following a cold boot, "ethtool eth1" shows:

Settings for eth1:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 100Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
        Link detected: yes

Following a warm boot, "ethtool eth1" shows:

Settings for eth1:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: Unknown! (65535)
        Duplex: Unknown! (255)
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
        Link detected: no

My Kubuntu installation is fully updated as of today.

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[Flight 6] Marvell ethernet interface doesn' t work after reboot
https://launchpad.net/bugs/39862