On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Grant wrote:

G> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:04:23 +0000, Alan Clifford <sardines@purse-seine.net> wrote:
G>
G> >Having problems with the network. lspci shows an ethernet controller as
G> >as Intel 82562V 10/100
G> >
G> >With some googling, I have determined that this seems to need the e100
G> >module but modprobe e100 doesn't make eth0 appear in ifconfig -a
G>
G> e100 is blacklisted by default, 'grep -rw e100 /etc' will show you
G> where to find it.
G>
G> Grant.
G>

Thanks for the reply. Those blacklists look like they apply to hotplug
scripts according to the blurb at the top of the file, rather
than modprobe?

But I have downloaded a new e1000 (note the extra 0) and that has given me
eth0. Strewth. That was hard work.

For future searches:

Dell Dimension E520
Intel 82562V 10/20
e1000-7.3.20.tar.gz
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/scri...ystems&lang=en

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Alan Clifford wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Grant wrote:
>
> G> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:04:23 +0000, Alan Clifford
> <sardines@purse-seine.net> wrote: G>
> G> >Having problems with the network. lspci shows an ethernet controller
> as G> >as Intel 82562V 10/100
> G> >
> G> >With some googling, I have determined that this seems to need the e100
> G> >module but modprobe e100 doesn't make eth0 appear in ifconfig -a
> G>
> G> e100 is blacklisted by default, 'grep -rw e100 /etc' will show you
> G> where to find it.
> G>
> G> Grant.
> G>
>
> Thanks for the reply. Those blacklists look like they apply to hotplug
> scripts according to the blurb at the top of the file, rather
> than modprobe?

But if Hotplug has already loaded the wrong kernel module.....
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On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Scott Cole wrote:

SC> > G>
SC> >
SC> > Thanks for the reply. Those blacklists look like they apply to hotplug
SC> > scripts according to the blurb at the top of the file, rather
SC> > than modprobe?
SC>
SC> But if Hotplug has already loaded the wrong kernel module.....
SC>

I don't think it could have done that because as soon as I downloaded
the new driver and loaded manually with modprobe, eth0 appeared.


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Alan Clifford wrote:
[snip]

>
> With some googling, I have determined that this seems to need the e100
> module but modprobe e100 doesn't make eth0 appear in ifconfig -a
>
> I have had to use the huge26.s kernal and have installed the kernel
> modules for 2.16.17.13 and pointed /etc/rc.d/rc.modules at the
> rc.modules-2.6.17.13
>
> I have tried a new e100 from source forge, installed the kernel source and
> did a make install for the new e100. This didn't cause eth0 to spring
> into existence either.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

Before you ran 'make install' did you run 'make
menuconfig' to select the e100 driver, then run
'make dep' (may not be needed)? And after making
the kernel did you run 'make modules_install'? I
think that's the order; I always review the
documentation (I think its in the README). Good luck.

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Homer Welch wrote:

HW> Alan Clifford wrote:
HW>
HW> Before you ran 'make install' did you run 'make menuconfig' to select the
HW> e100 driver, then run 'make dep' (may not be needed)? And after making the
HW> kernel did you run 'make modules_install'? I think that's the order; I
HW> always review the documentation (I think its in the README). Good luck.
HW>

I have my trusty Redhat 5.2 installation guide that I refer back to! All
I did with the recompile was change the processor to pentium 4 so I might
go back and have a look to see if I should remove bloat. Is it worth
doing that? And I did do a make install for the modules.

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