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From: Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Gigabit Ethernet problem
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:21:18
Message-Id: 342e1090707301011u640331cdv8b3547ad2f314dd7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Gigabit Ethernet problem by Albert Hopkins
1 On 7/30/07, Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:33 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
3 > > Hi list,
4 > >
5 > > I've been struggling with this for a while, I am setting up this new
6 > > machine, but got stuck because I can't find a way to make the network
7 > > card work... According to lspci:
8 > >
9 > > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet
10 > > Controller (Copper) (rev 03)
11 > >
12 > > The weird thing is, it works just fine when booting the LiveCD, dmesg shows:
13 > >
14 > > Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.2.9-k4
15 > > Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
16 > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
17 > > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
18 > > e1000: 0000:02:00.0: e1000_probe: (PCI Express:2.5Gb/s:32-bit) 00:10:c6:a1:5a:41
19 > > e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection
20 > > e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
21 > > e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: 10/1000 speed: disabling TSO
22 > >
23 > > but when booting the local kernel:
24 > >
25 > > Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.2.9-k4
26 > > Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
27 > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
28 > > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
29 > > e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection
30 >
31 > It appears as if driver works and has created the device but...
32 >
33
34 The device was not created (and yeah, that's weird since there's a
35 mention to "eth0" in dmesg), also the init script is there and there
36 is a config for the interface at rc.conf/net. It seems the probe is
37 not working, as it never detects the link is up or down...
38
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Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Gigabit Ethernet problem Joshua Doll <Joshua.Doll@×××××.com>