10.0-BETA3 NICs not working on Soekris Net6501-70

[Adam McDougall]

On 11/14/2013 19:36, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today, I've tried to upgrade my Soekris Net6501-70 from 9.2-STABLE to
> 10.0-BETA3. But with the new kernel (GENERIC) I get the following errors:
>
> ACPI BIOS Error (bug): A valid RSDP was not found (20130823/tbxfroot-223)
> [..]
> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xc0f156e0, 0) error 19
> ACPI BIOS Error (bug): A valid RSDP was not found (20130823/tbxfroot-223)
> ACPI: Table initialisation failed: AE_NOT_FOUND
> ACPI: Try disabling either ACPI or apic support.
> [..]
>
> Running 'ifconfig -a' outputs:
>
> : flags=8c02<BROADCAST,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): Device not configured
> : flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST>
> ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): Device not configured
> ð: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST>
> ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): Device not configured
> ö: flags=0<>
> ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): Device not configured
>
> Starting in multi-user-mode I see:
>
> eval: ${ifconfig_...}: Bad substitution
> eval: ${ifconfig_...}: Bad substitution
> eval: ${ifconfig_...}: Bad substitution
> eval: ${ifconfig_...}: Bad substitution
> eval: ${ifconfig_...}: Bad substitution
> eval: ${ifconfig_ð...}: Bad substitution
> [...]
> Starting Network:      ð.
> ifconfig: interface  does not exist
> ifconfig: interface  does not exist
> ifconfig: interface  does notem0: link state changed to UP
>   exist
> ifconfig: interface  does not exist
> ifconfig: interface  does not exist
> ifconfig: interface ð does not exist
>
> Disabling acpi and apic doesn't resolve the problem.
>
> The NICs are:
>
> em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.3.8> port 0x2000-0x201f mem 0xa1000000-0xa101ffff,0xa1020000-0xa1023fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5
> em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.3.8> port 0x3000-0x301f mem 0xa2000000-0xa201ffff,0xa2020000-0xa2023fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci6
> em2: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.3.8> port 0x4000-0x401f mem 0xa3000000-0xa301ffff,0xa3020000-0xa3023fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci10
> em3: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.3.8> port 0x5000-0x501f mem 0xa4000000-0xa401ffff,0xa4020000-0xa4023fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci11
>
> Thanks.
>
Try "device mptable" in your kernel config.  I am running 10-beta2
on a 6501-70. As far as I know, they've never made an ACPI bios
for it yet, so you need the older mptable option.