[CentOS] Loss of Ethernet adaptor

Tue Oct 21 18:02:26 UTC 2014
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner at gmail.com>

On 16-10-2014 13:47, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:41 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
>> This is a return to an issue I first raised back in June. We had a similar
>> occurrence in September while I was away and so I am revisiting the entire
>> matter.
>>
>> Steve Clark on 6 Jun 16:02 2014 wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We ran into this problem also - the interface would disappear.
>>> There is newer e1000e driver that fixes it or you could
>>> add pcie_aspm=off to your kernel command line.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Steve
>>
>> I have run into other reports of similar occurrences and some of these refer
>> to this bug report:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632650
>
> I'm the one who did the submission. Some of my comments (which I
> thought were helpful) have been hidden by Red Hat.
>
>> However, that report is closed as being  a duplicate of:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562273
>>
>> Which is not available to viewing by the great unwashed.
>
> I don't have access, either.
>
>> The host is running CentOS-6.5 with all updates applied to date.  My question
>> is: Has this issue been addressed in the official e1000e module or not?  if
>> not then does the recommendation to "add pcie_aspm=off to your kernel command
>> line" hold?
>
> My suggestion for you is to give ELRepo's kmod-e1000e a try. It has
> the latest version from Intel (3.1.0.2) as opposed to the version in
> the EL kernels (2.3.2-k). There are known cases in which a later
> version resolved issues.

Both BZs above are RHEL 5 specific, being 562273 a "driver update" one. 
Did you report this against any RHEL6 too?

Marcelo