SEVERE: network completelly broken after apt-get update & upgrade

[Hal9000]

Installed fresh version of breezy amd64 using the iso cd of the preview version.
Worked fine, until i did apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (on sep. 20)... about
300 packages got upgraded without, but after reboot the network is completelly
broken. ifup/ifdown don't even work, it's impossible to bring the network up.
Using nvidia nforce4 ultra chipset, nforce and marvell lan chips onboard, both
are unable to go up for some reason...

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I'm sorry, but there isn't enough information here for a bug report. Please read:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

and follow the guidelines there.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

This could be 12915 ...

If you know what module you need to load to get your network card working, try this:
$ sudo modprobe ne2k-pci
$ sudo ifup eth0
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

(replace ne2k-pci with your module name).

If you don't know your module name, could you attach the output of "lspci" for
me so I can tell you what it is.

Thanks

[Hal9000 (hal9000-pimpmylinux)]

hi there!
I just installed a fresh copy of breezy right now, to try to reproduce the
problem and document this better.
I just installed it, the only thing i did till now was open the package manager,
specify the proxy server for my connection and add the repos for brezzy
packages/updates/security.
Right now it's downloading 322 packages that need to be upgraded, network is
working for now...
I'm pasting the lspci and lsmod outputs for now, so you get an idea about my
machine configuration. I will now wait for the updates do be installed and
reboot the machine.

seba@malcolm:~$ uname -a
Linux malcolm 2.6.12-8-amd64-generic #1 Tue Aug 30 23:28:02 BST 2005 x86_64
GNU/Linux

seba@malcolm:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005e (rev a3)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0050 (rev a3)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0052 (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005a (rev a2)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005b (rev a3)
0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0053 (rev a2)
0000:00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005c (rev a2)
0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0057 (rev a3)
0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
0000:01:07.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port
(rev 04)
0000:01:07.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
0000:01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
Capture (rev 11)
0000:01:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
(rev 11)
0000:01:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link
Layer Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device
4362 (rev 19)
0000:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0141
(rev a2)
seba@malcolm:~$

seba@malcolm:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 246528 6
rfcomm 37168 0
l2cap 24328 3 rfcomm
powernow_k8 10512 0
cpufreq_userspace 5584 1
cpufreq_stats 5896 0
freq_table 5384 2 powernow_k8,cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave 2432 0
cpufreq_ondemand 7212 0
cpufreq_conservative 8236 0
video 17416 0
sony_acpi 6296 0
pcc_acpi 13696 0
dev_acpi 14980 0
i2c_acpi_ec 6528 0
button ...

[Hal9000 (hal9000-pimpmylinux)]

odd, seems to work now :)
i guess there was some package that was broken and got fixed in the meantime,
because i swear, i installed breezy three times a couple of days ago (sep. 20)
and had the same problem each time. didn't mean to make you loose time, sorry ;)
cheers!
hal

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

yes, we broke hardware detection a few days ago; as suspected, this is a dup of
12915

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19171.