Without Ethernet wire, computer crashes

I did an installation of Natty without network (I thought I had network driver issue, but in fact Ethernet wire was broken). The only problem I had was inability to install French packets. What is the last screen you get ?

If I boot off the CD/DVD the OS never loads. It gets to a point where it says Start configuring network then start configuring network security. It repeats these lines about 4 times then stops.

I presume your WIFI chip driver prevents Linux kernel to run. Sorry, but it's outside my knowledge. Reassigned to gnome-nettool and I keep question opened.

Do you use the ethernet port?

The WIFI chip (realtek) does not work without loading a 3rd party driver.

No I do not use my Ethernet port as this is a notebook.

Great, ok if you run:

sudo lshw -C neywork; lsb_release -a

What is output?

Thanks

*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
compatibilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
recources: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0200000-f0203fff
*network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros COmmunications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c1
serial: 00:26:6c:bb:4d:82
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vdp bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.0.2-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.5.4 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
resrouces: irq:42 memory:f0100000-f013ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
No LSB modules are available
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick

This was taken using the 10.10 CD. I have removed Ubuntu from this system as there are too many problems with it. Actually I am probably going to go back to Windows due to all the issues I have been having.

I am willing to help out more as this problem can be replicated on the 11.04 CD.

(in an instaled OS) If you run:

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/atl1c.conf

add the line:

blacklist atl1c

Save the new file, close gedit and reboot

In the liveCD run:

sudo modprobe -r atl1c

The device will deactivate and should be ok, alternatively you could just disable the device in the BIOS and have to do zero config in the OS.

Looks like that did the trick. If I decide to go back to Ubuntu I'll have to write a script to re-enable this on demand.

Now if the trackpad would work correctly, I would go back.

Thank you for all the help!

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

You can create a a new question for your trackpad :)

I just tried

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/atl1c.conf

on Linux Mint 11. This still crashed when I unplugged the Ethernet cable.

However it appears that this does work:

sudo modprobe -r atl1c

Is there anyway for me to invoke this command on startup or somehow disable this module?

Mint isn't supported here so what Mint does isn't of any interest to us

Natty Narwal is almost installed.

From what I gather, the

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/atl1c.conf

disables the Ethernet driver on startup. So if i needed my Ethernet port I would have to reboot in order to enable it. Is there anyway to disable the atl1c on startup in such a way that it can be re-enabled later without a reboot?

no, simply just run:

sudo modprobe atl1c

and it will load.

OK so Natty Narwall installed. I did the

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/atl1c.conf

which created the file. Then I put

blacklist atl1c

into the newly created file. I rebooted without the Ethernet cable plugged in and the computer froze after login.

Any other thoughts?

OK so I created 2 bash scripts:

etherOff
modprobe -r atl1c

and

etherActivate
modprobe atl1c

Then I added etherOff to the rc list

update-rc.d etherOff defaults

This allows me to work normally on the computer.

To me this is just a workaround. Any ideas on an actual fix?

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Still need an answer for this topic.

With the command running at startup I actually loose my Etherenet adapter, it cannot reactivate it once the computer is turned on.

Anyone else have any ideas?

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Since this has been awhile and a few kernel updates ago, I wanted to check to see if something fixed this. However I removed the update-rc.d and rebooted, however my eth0 is still not there. Any thoughts?

root@KJSLaptop:/home/keegans# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:87 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:87 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:8130 (8.1 KB) TX bytes:8130 (8.1 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 68:a3:c4:c3:00:bc
          inet addr:192.168.5.103 Bcast:192.168.5.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::6aa3:c4ff:fec3:bc/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:2752 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2778 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1777787 (1.7 MB) TX bytes:565218 (565.2 KB)

root@KJSLaptop:/home/keegans# lshw -C network
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 68:a3:c4:c3:00:bc
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192ce driverversion=2.6.38-11-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.5.103 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:16 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0200000-f0203fff
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet
       vendor: Atheros Communications
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
       version: c1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f0100000-f013ffff ioport:2000(size=128)

root@KJSLaptop:/home/keegans# cat /etc/modprobe.d/atl1c.conf
install atl1c /bin/true

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