Ethernet and sound problem on IBM X20

[Peter Simpson]

Hello.

I can't speak for the sound card problem, but the ethernet one is identical to 
one that I posted about a while ago.

The problem appears to be with the kernel 2.6.8.1 but not all of them.

I have successfully run 2.6.8 on this (IBM T20) with no problems.

I have also run Kanotix (with kernel 2.6.8.1) with complete success.

However, the stock Debian and Ubuntu kernels do not succeed.

Finally, on Sunday, there has been a post to the Debian mailings about the 
problem:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&threadm=2Lao1-1DF-39%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Ddebian%25203c59x%2520pci%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg

(sorry if this URL is too long).

So I'm presuming it will naturally find its way into Ubuntu.

Regards,
TreeBoy

On Wednesday 06 Oct 2004 08:58, Christian Casimir wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman a écrit :
> > It looks like your hardware has been detected all of the correct drivers
> > have been loaded automatically.  Can you start from the beginning, and
> > tell us exactly the problem that you're experiencing?  Does sound and/or
> > networking not work?  What did you try, and did you see any error
> > messages?
>
> Sure... I installed the 09/29/04 daily cd of Unbuntu on my laptop :
>
> IBM Thinkpad X20 (2662 37G) Laptop
> Pentium III 6OOMHz
> 128KB SDRAM 100MHz (SODIMM 144 broches)
> 20GB IDE HDD
> ATI RAGE MOBILITY M-AGP 2x
> Cirrus Logic CS 4281
> Modem 56K 3Com Mini PCI
> Ethernet Adapter 3Com 10/100 Mini PCI
>
>
> First, the ethernet problem. It occurs during the second stage of
> installation. On "Configuring Ethernet Interfaces", I get :
>
> eth0: command 0x5800 did not complete ! Status=0xffff
> eth0: command 0x2804 did not complete ! Status=0xffff
>
>
> Then, I get the following messages, on and on (unless I Ctrl-Del the
> process) :
>
> eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete ! Status=0xffff
> 0: @c52bc200 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 1: @c52bc2a0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 2: @c52bc340 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 3: @c52bc3e0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 4: @c52bc480 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 5: @c52bc520 length 80000048 status 00000048
> 6: @c52bc5c0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 7: @c52bc660 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 8: @c52bc700 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 9: @c52bc7a0 length 80000048 status 00000048
> 10: @c52bc840 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 11: @c52bc8e0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 12: @c52bc980 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 13: @c52bca20 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 14: @c52bcac0 length 80000048 status 00000048
> 15: @c52bcb60 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> eth0: command 0x5800 did not complete ! Status=0xffff
> eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status ffstatus ffff.
> diagnostics: net ffff media ffff dma ffffffff fifo ffff
> eth0: Transmitter encountered 16 collisions -- network cable problem ?
> eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device ?
> flags; bus-master 1, dirty 0(0) current 16(0)
> Transmit list ffffffff vs. c52bc200
>
>
> And under Unbuntu's GUI, no networking is possible.
>
> If I uninstall the ethernet device from the Ethernet Configuration
> Panel, everything goes smoothly on next boots (otherwise it displays the
> same messages).
>
>
> Somebody on the French list suggested I try adding these lines to the
> grub menu.lst :
>
> #kopt
> pci=noapci
>
> yet it didn't change anything...
>
> ************************************************************************
>
>
> Now for the sound problem...
>
> There's an slice from dmesg :
>
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> DLLRDY not seen
> CS4281: probe of 0000:00:0b.0 failed with error -5
>
>
> On booting Ubuntu :
>
> alsactl : load_state : 1143 : No sound cards found
>
>
> When I play an audio CD, I get no sound.
>
> When I try to adjust volume with the volume cursor (loudspeaker icon on
> the desktop bar), it won't move (systematically gets back to zero). And
> when I try to open the volume controller, an error message says (maybe
> not exactly: translated from the French) :
>
> "error: Sorry, no element and/or mixing device was found."
>
> When I launch alsamixer, I get :
> "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such device "
>
> When I launch alsaconfig, I get :
> "bash: alsaconfig: command not found" (as I wasn't sure whether it was
> alsaconfig or alsaconf, I did both : same result)
>
> So, I checked if alsa had been installed alright with synaptic -> search
>   "alsa" :
>
> alsa-base		installed
> alsa-config		installed
> gstreamer0.8-alsa	installed
> lidpt-plugins-alsa	installed
>
> Still, I expected to find these directories which actually don't exist :
> /dev/mixer   /dev/dsp0   /dev/sequencer   /dev/midi
>
>
> What's next ?

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