Re: Network card found but not configured with Etch / 2.6 kernel
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:32:21 -0400, Ken McCord wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:20:08 -0400, Ken McCord wrote:
> >
> >>Hope someone out there can help me with this one, cause I'm stumped.
> >>
> >>Have an IBM NetVista 6341-64U system (1.0 GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, onboard
> >>Intel Ethernet adapter) that when Etch boots on it, will detect an
> >>installed network card, but when networking is configured to start, will
> >>not start it. Here's the output of some commands from a fresh boot:
> >>
> >>dmesg | grep eth0
> >>e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfebff000, irq 5, MAC addr 00:02:55:25:65:FB
> >>
> >>ifconfig eth0 up
> >>eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> >>
> >>Similar messages showing the network card being detected at boot, but not
> >>configured will also occur if I disable the onboard Intel Ethernet
> >>adapter, and install a PCI network card (I've tried a 3Com and a
> >>tulip-based card).
> >>
> >>This box had previously been used as an IPCop firewall running a 2.4
> >>kernel, so I know the hardware works. If I put the hd in another system,
> >>networking works properly. I've tried the noapic and nolapic boot
> >>options, as well as updating to the last BIOS release, but to no effect.
> >>
> >>Any ideas?
> >
> >Try to boot with the "acpi=off" and/or the "pci=routeirq" option.
> >
> Tried both of these options separately and together, no change. I tried
> booting Knoppix 5.1 (using a 2.6.19 kernel and no boot options), and
> networking is running as normal.
Then I would boot Knoppix again and compare the dmesg output for the
card with the one you get for Debian. Also check what you get for
"modinfo e100" in both cases; Knoppix might simply have a newer version
of the module.
It might also be helpful to know if Knoppix loads the module with any
parameters/options; check if the directory /sys/module/e100/parameters/
exists after you boot Knoppix. If it does exist then you should post the
output of
grep -r '.*' /sys/module/e100/parameters/
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