ethernet not loading

ethernet not loading

[nightowl]

I have not been able to get my ethernet to connect.

I have a Broadcom BCM4401-B0 chip set using B44 driver.

I use dmesg command and see following message:

b44 ssb0:0: Required 30 BIT MASK unsupported by system.

Is there a way around this?  As an independent test, I have tried the 
Trisquel 8 distro and it is able to use the ethernet, so the hardware 
seems to be ok.

Re: ethernet not loading

[Joshua Branson]

nightowl <nightowl@members.fsf.org> writes:

> I have not been able to get my ethernet to connect.
>
> I have a Broadcom BCM4401-B0 chip set using B44 driver.
>
> I use dmesg command and see following message:
>
> b44 ssb0:0: Required 30 BIT MASK unsupported by system.
>
> Is there a way around this?  As an independent test, I have tried the
> Trisquel 8 distro and it is able to use the ethernet, so the hardware
> seems to be ok.

We probably need some more information from you.  What version of guix
are you running?  What laptop/desktop do you have?  What year was it
made?  Can you post the output of Trisquel 8's "lsmod" and the output of
guix's "lsmod"?


Thanks,

Joshua

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Joshua Branson
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Re: ethernet not loading

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi nightowl,

> I have not been able to get my ethernet to connect.
>
> I have a Broadcom BCM4401-B0 chip set using B44 driver.
>
> I use dmesg command and see following message:
>
> b44 ssb0:0: Required 30 BIT MASK unsupported by system.
>
> Is there a way around this?  As an independent test, I have tried the
> Trisquel 8 distro and it is able to use the ethernet, so the hardware
> seems to be ok.

Could you please tell us what kernel version you used on Trisquel?

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Ricardo

Re: ethernet not loading

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi nightowl,

please always keep the mailing list copied in your replies.

> I have since reinstalled guixsd 0.16.0 on my machine

Since Guix is stateless, reinstallation is rarely ever useful.  Did the
behaviour change in the new installation?

> but when I run Trisquel 8 from a thumb drive, it reports:
>
>  4.4.0-119-generic kernel.

Guix provides a similar version of Linux libre.  You can select it by
adding “(kernel linux-libre-4.4)” to your operating system configuration
file.  You may also need to add “linux” to the “use-package-modules”
clause near the top.

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Ricardo

Re: ethernet not loading

[nightowl]

I just got back to looking at this.  I was able to add the 
linux-libre-4.4 to my system, the ethernet is visible now, but the 
connection is erratic.  I am using gnome, but it doesn't automatically 
detect the ethernet.  Sometimes I can execute the 'ifconfig eth0' up 
command in the terminal and connect.  Other times it gives me an out of 
memory message.


On 2019-01-10 10:56 pm, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi nightowl,
> 
> please always keep the mailing list copied in your replies.
> 
>> I have since reinstalled guixsd 0.16.0 on my machine
> 
> Since Guix is stateless, reinstallation is rarely ever useful.  Did the
> behaviour change in the new installation?
> 
>> but when I run Trisquel 8 from a thumb drive, it reports:
>> 
>>  4.4.0-119-generic kernel.
> 
> Guix provides a similar version of Linux libre.  You can select it by
> adding “(kernel linux-libre-4.4)” to your operating system 
> configuration
> file.  You may also need to add “linux” to the “use-package-modules”
> clause near the top.
> 
> --
> Ricardo

Re: ethernet not loading

[Marius Bakke]

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nightowl <nightowl@members.fsf.org> writes:

> I just got back to looking at this.  I was able to add the 
> linux-libre-4.4 to my system, the ethernet is visible now, but the 
> connection is erratic.  I am using gnome, but it doesn't automatically 
> detect the ethernet.  Sometimes I can execute the 'ifconfig eth0' up 
> command in the terminal and connect.  Other times it gives me an out of 
> memory message.

That sounds really strange.  Does running 'dmesg' give any clues as to
what is going on?

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Re: ethernet not loading

[nightowl]

Sorry, I had been making allot of changes on my PC lately and could not 
figure out what I all broke.  Ended up doing a re-install but I am using 
the default kernel again (4.20.5-gnu) in GuixSD.  At the moment, I am 
not too bothered by the lack of ethernet.  I might save this problem for 
another time.

Thanks.

On 2019-01-31 4:25 pm, Marius Bakke wrote:
> nightowl <nightowl@members.fsf.org> writes:
> 
>> I just got back to looking at this.  I was able to add the
>> linux-libre-4.4 to my system, the ethernet is visible now, but the
>> connection is erratic.  I am using gnome, but it doesn't automatically
>> detect the ethernet.  Sometimes I can execute the 'ifconfig eth0' up
>> command in the terminal and connect.  Other times it gives me an out 
>> of
>> memory message.
> 
> That sounds really strange.  Does running 'dmesg' give any clues as to
> what is going on?