Issue with e1000

Issue with e1000

[Felipe Contreras]

Hi,

I've been trying 2.6.27 and 2.6.27.2, and I haven't been able to use
the e1000 module.

I let my system handle the networking, Network Manager in Fedora 9,
but I also tried this:
ifup eth0
Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

The module is not loaded automatically so I'm loading it myself,
nothing happens.

I'm also trying this:
modprobe e1000 debug=16

I see nothing special:
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k3-NAPI
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.

Am I missing something?

-- 
Felipe Contreras

Re: Issue with e1000

[Tony Vroon]

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On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:48 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> I've been trying 2.6.27 and 2.6.27.2, and I haven't been able to use
> the e1000 module.

Perhaps your device is new enough to be PCI-express, and as such needs
the new e1000e driver? I would advise to have both drivers enabled or
modular, so you can try which one works.
(It is true that the e1000 driver attached to some PCIe hardware in the
past, this has been changed)

Regards,
Tony V.

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Re: Issue with e1000

[Felipe Contreras]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Tony Vroon <tony@vroon.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:48 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> I've been trying 2.6.27 and 2.6.27.2, and I haven't been able to use
>> the e1000 module.
>
> Perhaps your device is new enough to be PCI-express, and as such needs
> the new e1000e driver? I would advise to have both drivers enabled or
> modular, so you can try which one works.
> (It is true that the e1000 driver attached to some PCIe hardware in the
> past, this has been changed)

Hehe, yeap, that was it.

Thanks.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

Re: Issue with e1000

[Andy Lutomirski]

Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying 2.6.27 and 2.6.27.2, and I haven't been able to use
> the e1000 module.
> 
> I let my system handle the networking, Network Manager in Fedora 9,
> but I also tried this:
> ifup eth0
> Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
> 
> The module is not loaded automatically so I'm loading it myself,
> nothing happens.
> 
> I'm also trying this:
> modprobe e1000 debug=16
> 
> I see nothing special:
> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k3-NAPI
> Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
> 
> Am I missing something?

Depending which hardware you have, you may need to use e1000e instead.

http://lwn.net/Articles/278016/

--Andy