e1000e startup problem

[Kevin H. Hobbs]

I have a fedora 14 server here who's ethernet interface seems to take
just a bit too long to establish a link.

Whenever it starts it is inaccessible over the network, which is a real
pain for a server. I have to go over with the monitor and keyboard,
crawl under the desk...

When I try to restart the network interface with "service network
restart" I get something that looks like :

Bringing up interface eth0:
Determining IP information for eth0...[big number] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP):
eth0: link is not ready.....
                                                      [FAILED]
[big number] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex...

Which sounds to me like a timeout was just a bit too short.

If I try a few times in a row suddenly it works.

[kevin at backup ~]$ uname -a
Linux backup.hooperlab 2.6.35.14-96.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 1
11:59:56 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[kevin at backup ~]$ lspci -nn | grep -i eth
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (Copper) [8086:108c] (rev 03)
05:05.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit
Ethernet Controller [8086:1076] (rev 05)

[kevin at backup ~]$ dmesg | tail
[ 1633.233297] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: irq 73 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1633.284094] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: irq 73 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1633.285079] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 1642.265283] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: irq 73 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1642.316094] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: irq 73 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1642.317556] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 1647.280547] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow
Control: RX/TX
[ 1647.285563] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
[ 1647.291153] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 1657.802008] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

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