[CentOS] Loss of Ethernet adaptor

Wed Oct 22 14:41:03 UTC 2014
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

On Tue, October 21, 2014 14:02, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> 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

No, I did not.


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