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S. Mizera
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:24 pm    Post subject: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100 VM - DRIVER Reply with quote

Hi, I have installed Gentoo from about 3 days and I have a problem with my NIC. It's Intel Corporation PRO/100 VM. Drivers e100, eepro and eexpress don't work. I had many problems with Debian installing, but I somehow found a driver for my card.

PCI devices:
Code:
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 12)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 12)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 12)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 12)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 12)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 12)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 12)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 03)


KDE Information Center:
Code:
Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100 VM
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 185
Memory at e8100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>


Kernel modules in Debian:
Code:
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
radeon                 99744  2
drm                    61332  3 radeon
ipv6                  226016  10
dm_snapshot            15520  0
dm_mirror              19152  0
dm_mod                 50232  2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
eepro100               29232  0
tsdev                   7520  0
snd_intel8x0           30332  0
snd_ac97_codec         83104  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus            2400  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            38368  0
snd_mixer_oss          15200  1 snd_pcm_oss
parport_pc             32164  0
parport                33256  1 parport_pc
floppy                 53156  0
psmouse                35016  0
i2c_i801                7404  0
snd_pcm                68644  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              20996  1 snd_pcm
rtc                    12372  0
serio_raw               6660  0
intel_agp              21148  1
i2c_core               19680  1 i2c_i801
pcspkr                  3072  0
snd                    47012  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               9248  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9640  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
shpchp                 33024  0
pci_hotplug            28704  1 shpchp
agpgart                29896  2 drm,intel_agp
evdev                   9088  1
ext3                  119208  5
jbd                    52456  1 ext3
mbcache                 8356  1 ext3
ide_cd                 36064  0
cdrom                  32544  1 ide_cd
ide_disk               14848  7
uhci_hcd               21032  0
e100                   32232  0
mii                     5344  2 eepro100,e100
usbcore               112676  2 uhci_hcd
piix                    9444  0 [permanent]
generic                 5028  0 [permanent]
ide_core              110504  4 ide_cd,ide_disk,piix,generic
thermal                13608  0
processor              28840  1 thermal
fan                     4804  0


A few commands in my Gentoo InstallCD:

Code:
# ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/devices/net
[...]
e100.ko
e1000
e2100.ko
eepro.ko
eexpress.ko
[...]

# modprobe e100
e100: 0000:02:08.0 e100_eeprom_load: EEPROM corrupted
e100: probe of 0000:02:08.0 failed with error -11

# modprobe eexpress
eexpress.c: Module autoprobe not recommended, give io=xx.
eexpress.c: Failed to register card at 0x0.
FATAL: Error inserting eexpress (/lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r7/kernel/devices/net/eexpress.ko): No such device or address

# modprobe eepro
eepro_init_module: Probe is very dangerous in ISA boards!
eepro_init_module: Please add "autodetect=1" to force probe
FATAL: Error inserting eepro (/lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r7/kernel/devices/net/eepro.ko): No such device

# ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


Module eepro100 doesn't exist. I loaded driver from Intel site, but it doesn't work. Somebody help me?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It should be eepro100 I have it in all my kernel dirs.
/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r1/drivers/net/eepro100.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r3/drivers/net/eepro100.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r4/drivers/net/eepro100.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-gentoo-r3/drivers/net/eepro100.c
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In which release I can find eepro100 driver? I have Gentoo 2006.1 InstallCD
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