Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:43:38 +0100 | From | Roger Luethi <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 vs 2.4: pxe booting system won't restart |
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[BCC'ed the people at VNTEK who are on the case]
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:36:50 -0600, Brian Jackson wrote: > > > Then the bios tries to fallback to other means of booting, and there > > > are none. Anybody got any clues where to start looking for fixes? > > > > Remove the kernel code that powers down the ethernet chip. If that works > > Yay, looks like this bit near line 1950 of via-rhine.c: > /* Hit power state D3 (sleep) */ > writeb(readb(ioaddr + StickyHW) | 0x03, ioaddr + StickyHW); > > I removed that, and it works like a charm now. Thank you very much.
I'm sorry, I should posted a warning earlier. This problem has been reported before.
> > then poke VIA. > > Poke them to fix the driver or to fix the bios?
BIOS. I can't fix this in the driver. Some hardware requires D3 for WOL.
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