To have network adapter, i must reset CMOS

Hi Bigolandia,

Can you provide a bit more information such as what Computer you have (Make Model etc. and BIOS version if possible). Also if you get your network card working could you do an

lspci

In the terminal so can have a look at what cards are installed. Do you notice any other issues such as your system clock being wrong ?

I'd like to know a bit more about what you mean by reset the bios too. I'm unclear what you are doing.

Thanks,

Félim

Thanks Whiteley
i have
MotherBoard: P4M800PRO-M ECS

CPU: x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~2994 Mhz

BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 080012, 19-07-2006 SMBIOS 2.3

Memory: 1Gb

disk partioned first half mswindowsxp second half ubuntu 7.04

no other issues like system clock being wrong

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Unknown device 2031 (rev 01)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UniChrome Pro IGP (rev 01)

Thanks
bigolandia

This may very well be an IRQ conflict one thing to try is setting acpi=noirq by editing your menu.lst file.

To do this open a terminal up.
Then type

sudo nano -w /boot/grub/menu.lst

Find the topmost (ie. Current Linux Kernel)

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=b8659249-e70b-4cad-8741-a041cb9d7d9b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet
savedefault

You need to edit the kernel line to include acpi=noirq

So it reads

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=b8659249-e70b-4cad-8741-a041cb9d7d9b ro quiet splash acpi=noirq
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet
savedefault

Please not there is poor formating on this:

The bit you should add should be entered in at the end of the line of the kernel line and should not continue into the initrd line.

Use the arrow keys inside nano to go to the very end, it will be past the visible part of the screen, so keep scrolling right.

once you have made the changes hit ctrl-x and say yes to save.

I've careffuly change the line in menu.lst as you say.
Now there is a error message " ... error creating bridge syslink ???? " too fast message when executing grub

When rebooting after a good session with net we got:
Checking NVRAM... Updated

This is when the network adapter disappear

Can you edit the acpi=noirq and change it to acpi=off

This is disabling the Advanced Power management. Sometimes this causes issues with various BIOS. Please also upload a dmesg

To do this at a terminal type

dmesg > my_dmesg.txt

Then upload the TXT file next time.

Can you edit the acpi=noirq and change it to acpi=off

This is disabling the Advanced Power management. Sometimes this causes issues with various BIOS. Please also upload a dmesg

To do this at a terminal type

dmesg > my_dmesg.txt

Then upload the TXT file next time.

Line changed acpi=off

Same message Checking NVRAM... Update OK when rebboting

No error message when executing grub

my_dmesg.txt:
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.20-16-generic (root@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.20-16.29-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] sanitize start
[ 0.000000] sanitize end
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009fc00 end: 000000000009fc00 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009fc00 size: 0000000000000400 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000e6000 size: 000000000001a000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000003dec0000 end: 000000003dfc0000 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003dfc0000 size: 000000000000e000 end: 000000003dfce000 type: 3
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003dfce000 size: 0000000000022000 end: 000000003dff0000 type: 4
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003dff0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 000000003e000000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fec00000 size: 0000000000001000 end: 00000000fec01000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fee00000 size: 0000000000001000 end: 00000000fee01000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003dfc0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003dfc0000 - 000000003dfce000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003dfce000 - 000000003dff0000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003dff0000 - 000000003e000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 95MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 253888) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 229376
[ 0.000000] HighMem 229376 -> 253888
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 253888
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 253888
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 191 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 24321 pages, LIFO batch:3
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[ 0.000000] Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
[ 0.000000] Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
[ 0.000000] OEM ID: TEMPLATE Product ID: ETEMPLATE APIC at: 0xFEE00000
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20
[ 0.000000] I/O APIC #2 Version 3 at 0xFEC00000.
[ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[ 0.000000] Processors: 1
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 3e000000:c0c00000)
[ 0.000000] Detected 2994.605 MHz processor.
[ 27.200864] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 251905
[ 27.200868] Kernel command line: root=UUID=af220a71-bc0a-4594-9e5b-18405504dbe6 ro quiet splash acpi=off
[ 27.201039] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[ 27.201042] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[ 27.201045] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 27.201048] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 27.201062] Initializing CPU#0
[ 27.201177] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[ 27.202543] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 27.203257] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 27.203866] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 27.226563] Memory: 995700k/1015552k available (1992k kernel code, 19220k reserved, 900k data, 328k init, 98048k highmem)
[ 27.226573] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 27.226574] fixmap : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000 ( 708 kB)
[ 27.226575] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 27.226576] vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)
[ 27.226578] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB)
[ 27.226579] .init : 0xc03d9000 - 0xc042b000 ( 328 kB)
[ 27.226580] .data : 0xc02f2374 - 0xc03d36d4 ( 900 kB)
[ 27.226581] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f2374 (1992 kB)
[ 27.226584] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 27.304888] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5996.56 BogoMIPS (lpj=11993132)
[ 27.304935] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 27.304942] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 27.304958] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 27.305101] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000641d 00000000 00000001
[ 27.305110] monitor/mwait feature present.
[ 27.305112] using mwait in idle threads.
[ 27.305119] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
[ 27.305122] CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
[ 27.305125] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[ 27.305127] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00003180 0000641d 00000000 00000001
[ 27.305143] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[ 27.305147] Remapping vsyscall page to ffffe000
[ 27.305162] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 27.320973] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 27.321337] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[ 27.321556] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[ 27.595041] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 09
[ 27.595085] Total of 1 processors activated (5996.56 BogoMIPS).
[ 27.595356] ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table
[ 27.595834] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[ 27.596168] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0
[ 27.739684] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 27.739950] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 27.740053] Time: 11:47:08 Date: 06/10/107
[ 27.740077] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 27.740161] EISA bus registered
[ 27.740296] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1
[ 27.740298] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 27.740300] Setting up standard PCI resources
[ 27.745869] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[ 27.745873] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 27.745881] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 27.745885] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
[ 27.745897] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f5cf0
[ 27.745900] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x6c5a, dseg 0xf0000
[ 27.746853] PnPBIOS: 17 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 17 recorded by driver
[ 27.746896] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
[ 27.746901] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 27.747985] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[ 27.748771] PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/3227] at 0000:00:11.0
[ 27.748787] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:08.0[A] -> IRQ 16
[ 27.748790] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> IRQ 20
[ 27.748794] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:0f.1[A] -> IRQ 20
[ 27.748797] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:10.0[A] -> IRQ 21
[ 27.748800] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:10.1[A] -> IRQ 21
[ 27.748804] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:10.2[B] -> IRQ 21
[ 27.748807] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:10.3[B] -> IRQ 21
[ 27.748810] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:10.4[C] -> IRQ 21
[ 27.748815] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:11.5[C] -> IRQ 22
[ 27.748818] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:01:00.0[A] -> IRQ 16
[ 27.754798] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 27.754800] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 27.754866] pnp: 00:0e: ioport range 0x290-0x29f has been reserved
[ 27.754871] pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[ 27.754874] pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xcf8-0xcff could not be reserved
[ 27.754876] pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xa00-0xa0f has been reserved
[ 27.754879] pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xa20-0xa2f has been reserved
[ 27.754881] pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xa30-0xa3f has been reserved
[ 27.755201] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[ 27.755203] IO window: disabled.
[ 27.755209] MEM window: fca00000-feafffff
[ 27.755214] PREFETCH window: eff00000-f7efffff
[ 27.755234] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
[ 27.755255] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 27.779610] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 27.779773] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[ 27.780592] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 27.781222] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[ 27.781226] TCP reno registered
[ 27.791688] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 28.330188] Freeing initrd memory: 6786k freed
[ 28.330747] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 28.330767] audit(1184068028.212:1): initialized
[ 28.330847] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
[ 28.330904] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 28.330925] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 28.330988] io scheduler noop registered
[ 28.330992] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 28.330994] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 28.331003] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 28.331086] PCI: Bypassing VIA 8237 APIC De-Assert Message
[ 28.331282] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 28.682448] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 28.708025] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 28.708104] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 28.708228] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 28.708371] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[ 28.709074] 00:0a: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 28.709322] 00:0b: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[ 28.709527] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 28.710118] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 28.710370] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[ 28.710412] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 28.710417] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 28.710713] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 28.711155] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 28.711160] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 28.711280] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 28.711322] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 28.711498] TCP cubic registered
[ 28.711505] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 28.711526] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 28.711548] Magic number: 15:158:782
[ 28.711704] hash matches device ptyq4
[ 28.712072] Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed
[ 28.712840] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[ 28.731937] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[ 29.935917] Capability LSM initialized
[ 29.993860] thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit
[ 30.473743] VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
[ 30.473771] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
[ 30.473773] VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[ 30.473786] VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
[ 30.473794] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[ 30.473805] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
[ 30.473813] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[ 30.493990] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 30.494015] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 30.494037] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 30.527418] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 30.559963] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 30.565306] libata version 2.20 loaded.
[ 30.664147] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 30.709204] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 31.345575] hda: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S182M, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 32.016315] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[ 32.016490] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 32.582638] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
[ 32.582898] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 32.582928] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 21, io base 0x0000dc00
[ 32.583881] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 32.584003] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 32.584012] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 32.686623] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
[ 32.686726] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 32.686749] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000d480
[ 32.687565] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 32.687686] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 32.687696] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 32.790285] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 32.790393] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 32.790417] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 21, io base 0x0000d400
[ 32.791251] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 32.791371] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 32.791381] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 32.894018] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller
[ 32.894127] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 32.894150] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 21, io base 0x0000d080
[ 32.894569] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 32.894711] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 32.894723] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 33.000689] sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 2.1
[ 33.000724] sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 11
[ 33.000781] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001ec00 ctl 0x0001e482 bmdma 0x0001e000 irq 20
[ 33.000816] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001e400 ctl 0x0001e082 bmdma 0x0001e008 irq 20
[ 33.000832] scsi0 : sata_via
[ 33.035663] hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[ 33.035674] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 33.204228] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 33.369946] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001ec07
[ 33.380086] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001ec07
[ 33.427028] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 312581808, hpa_sectors = 312581808
[ 33.427035] ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3160211AS, 3.AAE, max UDMA/133
[ 33.427037] ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
[ 33.493467] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 312581808, hpa_sectors = 312581808
[ 33.493472] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 33.493484] scsi1 : sata_via
[ 33.694849] ata2: SATA link down 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 33.704967] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001e407
[ 33.705084] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3160211AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 33.705445] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller
[ 33.705557] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[ 33.705601] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 21, io mem 0xfebff800
[ 33.705609] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[ 33.706048] usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 33.706194] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 33.706203] hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[ 33.714127] SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
[ 33.714143] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 33.714146] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 33.714164] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 33.714220] SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
[ 33.714231] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 33.714234] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 33.714251] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 33.714255] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 >
[ 33.772728] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[ 33.777543] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 34.081753] usb 5-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 34.177484] Attempting manual resume
[ 34.177489] swsusp: Resume From Partition 8:5
[ 34.177490] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[ 34.196548] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 34.223993] usb 5-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 34.235213] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 34.239069] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 34.239131] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 34.239182] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 34.239185] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 34.239265] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 34.239267] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 34.270774] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 34.270786] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 39.223706] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 39.224446] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9317 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 39.225189] scsi 2:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9317 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 39.225936] scsi 2:0:0:2: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9317 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 39.226558] scsi 2:0:0:3: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9317 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 39.227705] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[ 39.227742] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 39.228688] sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
[ 39.228720] sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 39.229685] sd 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdd
[ 39.229715] sd 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 39.230685] sd 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sde
[ 39.230716] sd 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[ 44.347274] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 44.350403] agpgart: Detected VIA VT3314 chipset
[ 44.354227] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
[ 44.662550] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 44.664554] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 45.270866] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
[ 45.474089] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[ 45.474176] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[ 45.727138] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
[ 45.900135] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input3
[ 46.360530] fuse init (API version 7.8)
[ 46.390188] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 46.419030] Adding 2939852k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/184090fd-86a6-4f10-b539-6e0e6f63372f. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2939852k
[ 46.524693] EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
[ 48.088785] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 52.139595] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_notify_smm
[ 52.139640] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_unregister_performance
[ 52.139758] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_preregister_performance
[ 52.139815] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_register_performance
[ 57.377485] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 58.081099] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[ 58.281521] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 58.281577] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 58.281579] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 58.281599] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 58.373683] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 58.373688] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 58.474676] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 58.474690] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 58.474692] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 72.829425] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 72.829508] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions

Ok unfortunate that the ACPI disable function didn't fix it. You can remove the acpi=off from your menu.lst

Can you try get the network card functioning however you do it and then give me a dmesg I can't see it here in this one so it must not be active.

Could you explain as best you can how you get the interface to work, I'm still not sure what you mean be resseting the BIOS.

>Could you explain as best you can how you get the interface to work, I'm still not sure what you mean be resseting the BIOS.
I open the box and in the 3 pin jumper of cmos change switch position 1-2 for 2-3, wait a few seconds and replace it to 1-2.

I like ubuntu very much. You can believe that. :-)

dmesg with the card on:
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.20-16-generic (root@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.20-16.29-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] sanitize start
[ 0.000000] sanitize end
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009fc00 end: 000000000009fc00 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009fc00 size: 0000000000000400 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000e6000 size: 000000000001a000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000003dec0000 end: 000000003dfc0000 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003dfc0000 size: 000000000000e000 end: 000000003dfce000 type: 3
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003dfce000 size: 0000000000022000 end: 000000003dff0000 type: 4
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003dff0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 000000003e000000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fec00000 size: 0000000000001000 end: 00000000fec01000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fee00000 size: 0000000000001000 end: 00000000fee01000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003dfc0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003dfc0000 - 000000003dfce000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003dfce000 - 000000003dff0000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003dff0000 - 000000003e000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 95MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 253888) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 229376
[ 0.000000] HighMem 229376 -> 253888
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 253888
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 253888
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 191 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 24321 pages, LIFO batch:3
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[ 0.000000] Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
[ 0.000000] Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
[ 0.000000] OEM ID: TEMPLATE Product ID: ETEMPLATE APIC at: 0xFEE00000
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20
[ 0.000000] I/O APIC #2 Version 3 at 0xFEC00000.
[ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[ 0.000000] Processors: 1
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 3e000000:c0c00000)
[ 0.000000] Detected 2994.536 MHz processor.
[ 26.694522] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 251905
[ 26.694527] Kernel command line: root=UUID=af220a71-bc0a-4594-9e5b-18405504dbe6 ro quiet splash acpi=off
[ 26.694696] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[ 26.694699] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[ 26.694702] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 26.694705] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 26.694719] Initializing CPU#0
[ 26.694833] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[ 26.696199] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 26.696928] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 26.697542] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 26.720089] Memory: 995700k/1015552k available (1992k kernel code, 19220k reserved, 900k data, 328k init, 98048k highmem)
[ 26.720099] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 26.720100] fixmap : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000 ( 708 kB)
[ 26.720101] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 26.720103] vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)
[ 26.720104] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB)
[ 26.720105] .init : 0xc03d9000 - 0xc042b000 ( 328 kB)
[ 26.720106] .data : 0xc02f2374 - 0xc03d36d4 ( 900 kB)
[ 26.720107] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f2374 (1992 kB)
[ 26.720110] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 26.798544] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5996.56 BogoMIPS (lpj=11993123)
[ 26.798591] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 26.798598] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 26.798614] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 26.798759] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000641d 00000000 00000001
[ 26.798768] monitor/mwait feature present.
[ 26.798770] using mwait in idle threads.
[ 26.798778] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
[ 26.798781] CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
[ 26.798783] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[ 26.798786] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00003180 0000641d 00000000 00000001
[ 26.798800] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[ 26.798804] Remapping vsyscall page to ffffe000
[ 26.798820] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 26.814628] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 26.814995] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[ 26.815211] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[ 27.089236] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 09
[ 27.089280] Total of 1 processors activated (5996.56 BogoMIPS).
[ 27.089552] ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table
[ 27.090022] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[ 27.090362] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0
[ 27.237321] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 27.237595] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 27.237697] Time: 13:02:27 Date: 06/11/107
[ 27.237722] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 27.237807] EISA bus registered
[ 27.237945] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1
[ 27.237947] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 27.237949] Setting up standard PCI resources
[ 27.243507] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[ 27.243511] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 27.243519] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 27.243523] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
[ 27.243537] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f5cf0
[ 27.243540] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x6c5a, dseg 0xf0000
[ 27.244495] PnPBIOS: 17 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 17 recorded by driver
[ 27.244539] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
[ 27.244544] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 27.245683] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[ 27.246521] PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/3227] at 0000:00:11.0
[ 27.246537] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:08.0[A] -> IRQ 16
[ 27.246541] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> IRQ 20
[ 27.246544] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:0f.1[A] -> IRQ 20
[ 27.246548] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:10.0[A] -> IRQ 21
[ 27.246551] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:10.1[A] -> IRQ 21
[ 27.246554] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:10.2[B] -> IRQ 21
[ 27.246558] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:10.3[B] -> IRQ 21
[ 27.246561] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:10.4[C] -> IRQ 21
[ 27.246566] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:11.5[C] -> IRQ 22
[ 27.246569] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:12.0[A] -> IRQ 23
[ 27.246572] PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:01:00.0[A] -> IRQ 16
[ 27.253030] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 27.253032] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 27.253096] pnp: 00:0e: ioport range 0x290-0x29f has been reserved
[ 27.253101] pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[ 27.253104] pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xcf8-0xcff could not be reserved
[ 27.253106] pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xa00-0xa0f has been reserved
[ 27.253109] pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xa20-0xa2f has been reserved
[ 27.253111] pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xa30-0xa3f has been reserved
[ 27.253454] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[ 27.253456] IO window: disabled.
[ 27.253462] MEM window: fca00000-feafffff
[ 27.253467] PREFETCH window: eff00000-f7efffff
[ 27.253487] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
[ 27.253508] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 27.293195] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 27.293362] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[ 27.294235] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 27.294878] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[ 27.294882] TCP reno registered
[ 27.305281] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 27.846188] Freeing initrd memory: 6786k freed
[ 27.846755] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 27.846774] audit(1184158948.232:1): initialized
[ 27.846857] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
[ 27.846918] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 27.846940] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 27.847006] io scheduler noop registered
[ 27.847009] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 27.847011] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 27.847020] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 27.847104] PCI: Bypassing VIA 8237 APIC De-Assert Message
[ 27.847300] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 28.198490] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 28.225180] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 28.225255] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 28.225375] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 28.225523] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[ 28.226154] 00:0a: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 28.226402] 00:0b: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[ 28.226635] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 28.227228] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 28.227383] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[ 28.227421] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 28.227426] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 28.227719] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 28.228107] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 28.228112] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 28.228231] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 28.228272] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 28.228350] TCP cubic registered
[ 28.228357] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 28.228377] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 28.228399] Magic number: 15:171:28
[ 28.228407] hash matches device ttydb
[ 28.228914] Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed
[ 28.230427] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[ 28.249208] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[ 29.461412] Capability LSM initialized
[ 29.511312] thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit
[ 29.990888] VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
[ 29.990916] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
[ 29.990918] VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[ 29.990931] VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
[ 29.990939] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[ 29.990952] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
[ 29.990959] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[ 30.011087] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 30.011110] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 30.011135] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 30.044579] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 30.066990] via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.2 Sept-11-2006 Written by Donald Becker
[ 30.085595] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 30.090983] libata version 2.20 loaded.
[ 30.186975] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 30.224391] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 30.890864] hda: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S182M, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 31.565616] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[ 31.565789] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 32.135841] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
[ 32.136089] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 32.136119] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 21, io base 0x0000dc00
[ 32.137057] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 32.137194] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 32.137204] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 32.243782] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
[ 32.243885] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 32.243909] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000d480
[ 32.244715] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 32.244836] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 32.244846] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 32.351445] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 32.351550] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 32.351573] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 21, io base 0x0000d400
[ 32.352397] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 32.352528] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 32.352536] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 32.459155] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller
[ 32.459262] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 32.459286] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 21, io base 0x0000d080
[ 32.459697] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 32.459849] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 32.459857] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 32.571060] eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1c400, 00:19:21:31:48:3a, IRQ 23.
[ 32.571778] eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 41e1.
[ 32.574750] sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 2.1
[ 32.574786] sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 11
[ 32.574840] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001ec00 ctl 0x0001e482 bmdma 0x0001e000 irq 20
[ 32.574869] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001e400 ctl 0x0001e082 bmdma 0x0001e008 irq 20
[ 32.574884] scsi0 : sata_via
[ 32.589038] hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[ 32.589050] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 32.781308] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 32.950983] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001ec07
[ 32.961126] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001ec07
[ 33.017053] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 312581808, hpa_sectors = 312581808
[ 33.017060] ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3160211AS, 3.AAE, max UDMA/133
[ 33.017062] ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
[ 33.083493] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 312581808, hpa_sectors = 312581808
[ 33.083498] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 33.083511] scsi1 : sata_via
[ 33.287846] ata2: SATA link down 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 33.297964] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001e407
[ 33.298772] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3160211AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 33.299136] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller
[ 33.299248] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[ 33.299291] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 21, io mem 0xfebff800
[ 33.299299] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[ 33.299738] usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 33.299906] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 33.299916] hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[ 33.307768] SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
[ 33.307802] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 33.307805] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 33.307833] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 33.307885] SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
[ 33.307897] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 33.307899] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 33.307916] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 33.307919] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 >
[ 33.362755] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[ 33.367534] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 33.658791] usb 5-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 33.709293] Attempting manual resume
[ 33.709297] swsusp: Resume From Partition 8:5
[ 33.709299] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[ 33.728436] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 33.777733] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 33.777744] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 33.812952] usb 5-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 42.632413] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
[ 42.844162] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 42.844241] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 44.236299] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 44.247768] agpgart: Detected VIA VT3314 chipset
[ 44.251569] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
[ 44.574987] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 44.711078] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 44.930595] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 45.061266] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
[ 45.102126] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 45.102191] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 45.102241] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 45.102244] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 45.102404] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 45.102406] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 45.203249] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[ 45.203335] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[ 45.416203] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
[ 45.722541] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input3
[ 46.091691] fuse init (API version 7.8)
[ 46.121158] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 46.150003] Adding 2939852k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/184090fd-86a6-4f10-b539-6e0e6f63372f. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2939852k
[ 46.255897] EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
[ 47.678814] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 50.091752] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 50.095426] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9317 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 50.099397] scsi 2:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9317 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 50.103391] scsi 2:0:0:2: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9317 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 50.107372] scsi 2:0:0:3: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9317 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 50.123369] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[ 50.123411] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 50.127327] sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
[ 50.127364] sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 50.131316] sd 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdd
[ 50.131348] sd 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 50.135302] sd 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sde
[ 50.135335] sd 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[ 51.879099] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_notify_smm
[ 51.879145] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_unregister_performance
[ 51.879262] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_preregister_performance
[ 51.879319] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_register_performance
[ 53.346016] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 57.166690] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 57.878818] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[ 58.081305] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 58.081835] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 58.081839] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 58.081843] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 58.180150] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 58.180154] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 58.314299] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 58.314530] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 58.314534] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8

Ok
I've find a semi-solution.
If the system hibernate instead log off, the network adapter remains on.

?????

What do you think about that?

Thanks for the info bigolandia... it gets more and more curious. Don't worry I have not forgotten you.

I take it you have no issue in XP ? It must be a combination of the Kernel Driver and the BIOS. Have you ever update a BIOS before, I'm wondering if this is something that might solve it. I've not really seen too many Kernel issues with your Chipset it's a very common one. I can't see why resetting the BIOS (thanks for the info I wasn't sure if that was what you were doing) makes it work again. I'll hopefully have something for you in a couple of hours.

It's a VERY strange one...

No issue in XP.
I've never update a BIOS. But I've aquired the computer last february.
Thanks again!

Ok what you need to do is use irqfixup in the menu.lst file like we did with acpi=off. For Ubuntu I would copy and past a new whole kernel section in incase this freezes your boot and you get a kernel panic. So

gksu gedit

Open /boot/grub/menu.lst

And copy and paste the linux kernel section like this:

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=b8659249-e70b-4cad-8741-a041cb9d7d9b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet
savedefault

And past it in again so you have another identicale one but then edit it to add irqfixup (Also give it a new title

title Ubuntu, IRQ Fixup Enabled
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=b8659249-e70b-4cad-8741-a041cb9d7d9b irqfixup ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet
savedefault

I hope this does it for you. It's actually a Kernel issue.

Like you say «It's a VERY strange one...»

I've changed the grub like this:

title Ubuntu, IRQ Fixup Enabled
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=af220a71-bc0a-4594-9e5b-18405504dbe6 irqfixup ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet
savedefault

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=af220a71-bc0a-4594-9e5b-18405504dbe6 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=af220a71-bc0a-4594-9e5b-18405504dbe6 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
quiet
savedefault

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=af220a71-bc0a-4594-9e5b-18405504dbe6 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic

title Ubuntu, memtest86+
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

No kernel panic, but when i reset the system, network adapter off the line.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

I have a new idea.

System write to CMOS when log off, disabling the network adapter.

Someone has talking to me about commands like modprobe????

That could be the explanation for not having problems when the system hibernate.

Hi bigolandia, sorry I've been away.

Modprobe etc. can be used to load driver modules when the system boots or new devices have been attached. It should do this automatically for you. The bios should not be disabling it.

When the card is working do this

lsmod >modules.txt

this will list all kernel modules loaded. Do the same when it's not working. You'll see one for the via card that'll be missing when it's not working. Then type modprobe viaXXX

But viaXXX will be whatever is in your working modules.txt file.

Ya! I'm in hollydays too.
But I've went to my work for a while, and I've made what you said.

There are 2 via drivers not loaded when it's not working:
        via_agp
        via_rhine
I've entered the respective 2 commands modprobe. No results.

Do you think it will be possible when linux log off the system, it encounters the via card that's not appropriated in the chipset and shut it off ????

Hi bigolandia,

Hope you are enjoying your hols. This one is a strange one, I can't see why it would shut anything. One thing you can try is to place

via_agp
via_rhine

into your /etc/modules file, asumming these are the correct module names (you should check next time it's working if you don't already know, by typing lsmod to list all modules loaded). This file forces the loading of particular modules. I'm hoping that does it. I'm running out of ideas !
All the best, Félim

Hi Félim

Maybe for strange problems strange solutions???

The computer has another network adapter. Ubuntu don't recognized them. It is a Silan SC92031, like you can see in report lspci command:
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Unknown device 2031 (rev 01)

For any reason, (that i'd like to know) in the first time i have installed ubuntu, system worked with windows in two local networks, one for each card, and connected to the ADSL router was the Silan SC92031. Although this, the system worked with connection to the internet.

I've thinked there is no matter with this, but now, trying to find a solution, i think if i install the correct driver?...

What do you think? Possibly it is a nonsene, but i would like to try. Can you help me on this?

Sorry for bad explanation.

in
"Although this, the system worked with connection to the internet." i mean
ubuntu works flowing to a card that it not recognize working with the other card in the mohterboard that ubuntu shut off when logging off.

Sorry for my very bad english.

Hi bigolandia,

I've been really busy of lat I meant to get back to you sooner. That Silan card appears to be a problem for a lot of people. It seems to be a fake RealTek card. I've got a few links for you here to some others who have tried to get it working.

http://vishalmanohar.wordpress.com/2007/07/07/configuring-hangzhou-silan-on-ubuntu-linux/

http://ubuntu-os.blogspot.com/2007/04/installing-ethernet-card-having-silan.html

The second link has a good walkthru. You basically need to install the windows driver to try get it working, although in the first link I have pasted you may be able to try the driver here http://gurukumara.googlepages.com/

Are you based in India ? The Silan device seems to be rather popular there and in Brazil. I hope you have more luck than some of these people have had.

But here's a report on it being one card to avoid:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2006-August/015771.html

So no luck with the one that switches off... I'm really curious what is going on there.

I'll try dig into it a bit more, not sure how well this will go.

Félim

Hi Felim

i've tried all the ways, but i'm a newbie.

i've found two curious facts.

first:
Puppy Linux, like Ubuntu, shuts off the net card when rebooting.

second:
Puppy works with the silan sc92031. The system seems work with 2 drivers: mii.ko and 8139cp.ko

I've tried to call them inside Ubuntu. But no lucke.

Can it be a solution?

Sorry for not getting back sooner:

Can you check something for me, on all of the distros can you run the following command to check exact versions:

uname -a

This will give the Kernel version and perhaps allow us to find out if there is a revision of the driver. I'll then look into the Silan driver for that kernel. You unfortunaly can't copy drivers between kernels as in most cases. It's interesting it detects it as a 8139 model as this is the card it is trying to replicate. You could try load the driver yourself in Ubuntu using

modprobe 8139cp
modprobe mii

But I'm sure it should have detected them.

But give it a shot, you never know.

I've a Rhine II. I've reported:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/641658