No ethernet after cold boot; works after warm boot

[Werner Karl]

After the dist-upgrade from feisty to gutsy, ethernet does not work after a cold boot. The NIC is a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM 5171 using the tg3 driver. /etc/init.d/networking restart does not bring network up. Instead it issues a:
SIOCSIFADDR: no such device
error for eth0

After the cold boot, lshw and lspci do not show up the NIC hardware. After a warm boot without any changes to the system, the NIC comes up and network is OK.

Please find attached the output from dmesg, lshw, lspci, ifconfig and syslog, each in a version after cold boot and after warm boot.

I am not sure, if this is a kernel issue. Maybe this is an upstart issue?

[Werner Karl (wkarl-bfe)]

Meanwhile I found out, that this applies *only* to the realtime kernel 2.6.22-14-rt. When I use kernel 2.6.22.14-generic, everything works.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

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This bug was reported against the linux-meta package when it likely should have been reported against the linux package instead. We are automatically transitioning this to the linux kernel package so that the appropriate teams are notified and made aware of this issue. Thanks.

[Werner Karl (wkarl-bfe)]

This did also occur in Intrepid.

However, this does *not* occur in Jaunty anymore. At least for my system. If there aren't any objections, I would close this bug next week.

[Werner Karl (wkarl-bfe)]

Please close this bug. It doesn't occur in Jaunty anymore.