Comment 26 for bug 297263

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Taylor (monkeybikerboy1400) wrote : Re: [Bug 297263] Re: HP/Compaq mini Sky2 Ethernet not working if booting from battery

Can you give me the list of the commands to achieve this?

Thank You

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Zash <email address hidden> wrote:

> I had this problem on a Compaq Mini 730eo, which according to
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks#Compaq%20Mini%20730EO
> is supposed to work perfectly.
>
> adding acpi_os_name=Linux works for me.
>
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> HP/Compaq mini Sky2 Ethernet not working if booting from battery
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297263
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> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> This is a similar bug to #189982 Marvell 88E8040 nic doesn't work with sky2
> driver, which was "fixed." The same issues has come up again in the kernel
> 2.6.27-7-generic. I don't see any error messages. lspci -vnnnn reports my
> Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller using
> driver sky2. However, eth0 recieves no ip address. sudo ifdown eth0
> responds ifdown: interface eth0 not configured and sudo ifup eth0 responds
> with Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0. Please let me know if I can
> provide any additional information. It also looks like someone posted this
> issue in Bug #138611, but the original issue was not for the new kernel.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/138611/comments/45
>