Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Gigabit Ethernet problem

[Joshua Doll]

Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:33 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I've been struggling with this for a while, I am setting up this new
>>> machine, but got stuck because I can't find a way to make the network
>>> card work... According to lspci:
>>>
>>> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet
>>> Controller (Copper) (rev 03)
>>>
>>> The weird thing is, it works just fine when booting the LiveCD, dmesg shows:
>>>
>>> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.2.9-k4
>>> Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
>>> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
>>> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
>>> e1000: 0000:02:00.0: e1000_probe: (PCI Express:2.5Gb/s:32-bit) 00:10:c6:a1:5a:41
>>> e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection
>>> e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
>>> e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: 10/1000 speed: disabling TSO
>>>
>>> but when booting the local kernel:
>>>
>>> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.2.9-k4
>>> Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
>>> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
>>> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
>>> e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection
>>>
>> It appears as if driver works and has created the device but...
>>
>>
>
> The device was not created (and yeah, that's weird since there's a
> mention to "eth0" in dmesg), also the init script is there and there
> is a config for the interface at rc.conf/net. It seems the probe is
> not working, as it never detects the link is up or down...
>
>
What does ifconfig -a return? A lot of times udev will "remap" the 
device name. Especially if there is IP over firewall.


--Joshua Doll
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