Unable to do network boot with Atheros AR8162 [1969:1090] AR8161[1969:1091] Ethernet controller

[Po-Hsu Lin]

CID: 201202-10508 Dell Inspiron 5420

This issue was found in 12.04.2, cause by the lack of alx driver. (bug 927782)

For 12.04.3 stock image, the Ethernet works fine when installed by USB.
It works fine with LiveUSB as well.

However, it's unable to boot from Internet, kernel panic will occur.

Here is the last thing that I can read from the screen:

Begin: Loading essential drivers ... [ 5.506492] Btrfs loaded
[ 5.510499] xor: automatically using best checksumming function:
[ 5.546543] avx : 18213.000 MB/sec
[ 5.546992] device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized v0.2594b
done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... [ 5.802369] [drm] Enabling RC6 states: RC6 on, RC6p off, RC6pp off
[ 6.302349] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000200
[ 6.302349]
[ 6.302391] drm_kms_helper: panic occurred, switching back to text console

I think AR8161 is affected too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: linux-image-3.8.0-29-generic 3.8.0-29.42~precise1 [modified: boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-29-generic]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-29.42~precise1-generic 3.8.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k3.8.0-29-generic.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.5
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 1687 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0x90610000 irq 44'
   Mixer name : 'Intel PantherPoint HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:14f1506e,1028055d,00100002 HDA:80862806,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 29
   Simple ctrls : 11
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 45.399772] type=1400 audit(1380789162.280:31): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=1 profile="/usr/lib/telepathy/mission-control-5" name="/usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/" pid=1870 comm="mission-control" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
 [ 176.951824] alx 0000:02:00.0 eth0: NIC Link Down
 [ 178.544219] alx 0000:02:00.0 eth0: NIC Link Up: 100 Mbps Full
Date: Thu Oct 3 16:39:19 2013
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=a666e576-505e-4243-b829-4c7eaf019d98
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 5420
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-29-generic root=UUID=f54f0c0f-85ae-4050-9827-84fa151334d7 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.8.0-29-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.8.0-29-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.79.6
SourcePackage: linux-lts-raring
StagingDrivers: rts5139
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/20/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: X52
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: FAB1
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrX52:bd06/20/2012:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron5420:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvrFAB1:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 5420
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

Verified on 201211-12070
This system has AR8161, it could be network booted with 12.04.4 (3.11.0-15)

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Po-Hsu Lin, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-raring/+bug/1234594/comments/2 regarding this being fixed with an update, and linux-lts-raring is EOL.