just got gentoo installed, now cant get e1000 nic to work

wonderboy · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

when i try and compile intels driver it works. but then when i do insmod e1000 it says some stuff about, not having the right parameters. i dont know what parameters to include. does anyone know?

My card: Intel PRO/1000 MT Destop Adapter

thanks guys

puggy · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:07 am Post subject:

Please provide more details. This is not a good question if you want an answer.

Moving to Networking & Security from Installing Gentoo.

Puggy
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wonderboy · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

Alright here is the error message:

pilla · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:41 pm Post subject:

slartibartfasz · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject:

please tell us what

Mithor · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 7

I maybe way off, but what system is it in? If its a dell latly they have been using broadcom network cards instead of intel's in place of their 1000 cards.

wonderboy · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

nothing is displayed, it just goes back to the command line. for further explaination, this is what i have

My custom system:
MSI KT4Ulltra
Athlon XP 1900+
GeforceFX 5600
512 Micron DDR PC2100
Intel PRO/1000 card.

During the install it detected the card. when i reboot and gentoo is on my system, during boot says it cant find the card. so i go to intels site, on my windows dual boot D/L the drivers untar them. then i read the README and it says go into the src directory. i do such, and then it says type 'make install' so i do that, it does the install. next line of the README says to type:

wonderboy · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

I just tried recompiling with the card driver compiled into the kernel now, not as a module and when i boot i get this message:

slartibartfasz · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 5:47 am Post subject:

try to disable PnP in your bios and pass the kernel the options 'acpi=off' and 'apic=off'
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wonderboy · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

ill try that tonight when i get home from work, but why would that have any effect on the way the netcard worked?

slartibartfasz · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:42 pm Post subject:

because PnP settings produce strange irq settings sometimes, and because the 2.4 kernels have problems with the network when apic and acpi are enabled - for more about this search for 'network' and 'problems' on this forum

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wonderboy · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

That did it, thanks guys

someguy · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 12:55 pm Post subject:

lil late on the post but just thought id add my experience with those cards
i always just make tulip a module and modprobe tulip works everytime

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ph10 · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 2

I found this thread after having the same problem, but the posted solutions didn't work. After some more searching round the forums, I finally got a tip as to what to do, so I'm posting it here for the benefit of anyone else who finds this thread:

I re-compiled the kernel *without* any e1000 support (in fact, without any network card support at all). After installing the new kernel, I then ran

emerge e1000

This installed an e1000 module which worked. There seems to be some clash between what is in the kernel source and the external code that you get with emerge.