e1000e: probe of ... failed with error -2, CentOS 5.5 Intel 82574L

[ethernall]

Hello,

I am trying to use a rig with Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H mother board and Intel 82574L based NIC (EXPI9301CTBLK) under CentOS 5.5. Unfortunately I have issue with the NIC - during boot it fails to initialize:

Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 1.3.10a-NAPI
Copyright(c) 1999 - 2011 Intel Corporation.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Using NUMA node 0 for memory allocations
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled
e1000e: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -2

I receive the same result with the original e1000e driver from the distribution, the latest elrepo driver and the latest driver from Intel site (as seen in the example). I have tried also 2.6.37 kernel version - with the same result. The adapter however works fine under Windows (MiniXP from Hiren's BootCD) and with Ubuntu 10.10 LiveCD. Please help me resolve the issue. Thank you very much in advance.

BR,
ethernall

[Rubberman]

That's a new board, and it is likely that the CentOS 5.x distributions don't yet support it. Ubuntu 10.10 is much more up-to-date. See if a Scientific Linux 6 Live DVD supports it (that is RHEL 6, though CentOS hasn't released version 6 yet, SL is effectively the same). If so, then you can update to SL 6. However, you might be able to install the driver directly from Intel. Here is a link to the Linux driver download page for this card: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...=3025&lang=eng

[HROAdmin26]

Review the message log and do some Googling.

ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled

Looks like an ACPI issue in CentOS. I doubt you would see this in the Ubuntu boot. Disable ACPI and/or look into your BIOS settings.

[ethernall]

Review the message log and do some Googling.



Looks like an ACPI issue in CentOS. I doubt you would see this in the Ubuntu boot. Disable ACPI and/or look into your BIOS settings.

Thanks, the acpi-off solves the issue with the NIC but also disables the cpu scaling:

Mar 18 12:30:21 ethgate kernel: powernow-k8: Found 4 virtualized processors
Mar 18 12:30:21 ethgate kernel: powernow-k8: Your BIOS does not provide _PSS objects. PowerNow! does not work on SMP systems without _PSS objects. Complain to your BIOS vendor.
Mar 18 12:30:21 ethgate last message repeated 3 times

Any other ideas?

P.S. I have no option to disable ACPI in the BIOS.