Marvell 88E8055 PCI-E GbE not functional in 14.04 x86_64

[Yuan Chao]

Since 12.04 32bit, the driver (sky2) for Marvell 88E8055 PCI-E GbE isn't functioning well as HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00. With a manual setting using 'ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:01:xx:xx:xx:xx' or 'ip link set eth0 addr 00:01:xx:xx:xx:xx' (numbers hidden) the device can be working. When I move to 14.04 64bit, this old trick doesn't work. Although one can still set the hw address and the LED blinks, no packet is transferred as seen with ifconfig. Now I run with 14.04 32bit live iso, the old trick works.

[Yuan Chao (yuanchao)]

Some how apport doesn't work here. (due to live env.?) Here is the lspci output and kernel log:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
 Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41
 Memory at fdcfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at fdf00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
 Capabilities: [5c] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
 Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
 Kernel driver in use: sky2

Aug 9 20:16:35 ubuntu kernel: [ 5.103342] sky2: driver version 1.30
Aug 9 20:16:35 ubuntu kernel: [ 5.103509] sky2 0000:02:00.0: Yukon-2 EC Ultra chip revision 5
Aug 9 20:16:35 ubuntu kernel: [ 5.103604] sky2 0000:02:00.0: irq 41 for MSI/MSI-X
Aug 9 20:16:35 ubuntu kernel: [ 5.103855] sky2 0000:02:00.0 eth0: addr 00:00:00:00:00:00
... (manually assign hw addr)
Aug 9 20:20:21 ubuntu kernel: [ 243.665078] sky2 0000:02:00.0 eth0: enabling interface
Aug 9 20:20:21 ubuntu kernel: [ 243.665211] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Aug 9 20:20:21 ubuntu kernel: [ 243.666488] sky2 0000:02:00.0 eth0: disabling interface
Aug 9 20:20:21 ubuntu kernel: [ 243.671938] sky2 0000:02:00.0 eth0: enabling interface
Aug 9 20:20:21 ubuntu kernel: [ 243.672161] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Aug 9 20:20:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 246.914983] sky2 0000:02:00.0 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
Aug 9 20:20:24 ubuntu kernel: [ 246.915209] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

[Yuan Chao (yuanchao)]

$ uname -na
Linux ubuntu 3.13.0-24-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 10 19:08:14 UTC 2014 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"

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This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

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and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

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[Yuan Chao (yuanchao)]

W/o network the report can't be sent. So I change the status to 'confirmed' directly.