Intel Pro 100M

sullivanva · 2005-09-01 03:01:50

The joys and pains of new hardware ...

New Dell Dimension 5100 and the NIC card doesn't seem to be working.

Did my research on Intel Pro 100M. Went to Intel and they say it's e100.

Put the e100 in /etc/rc.conf and NOT modprobe.conf.

MODULES=(!usbserial !ide-scsi e100)

Thought I might be wrong and put in eepro100. Also doesn't work.

No error messages when it comes up.

ifconfig looks great:

ifconfig -a 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00-02-3C-01-91-07-BE-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:192.168.0.102  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Can't even ping my bloody router!

ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.33 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.0.101 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.101 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.101 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4000ms
, pipe 3

Routing table looks fine:

netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0

 grep eth0 /etc/rc.conf
# Note: to use DHCP, set your interface to be "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
eth0="eth0 192.168.0.102 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0)

Snowman · 2005-09-01 04:07:24

Did you try to use lshwd to see if you use the right module?

sullivanva · 2005-09-01 12:21:43

I noticed it wasn't on the Wombat CD.

Is there a newer version of Wombat and does it have those packages?

Snowman · 2005-09-01 19:32:15

There's no newwer version of Wombat. You could download it with its dependencies on another computer, burn them to a cd them install them manually.

It is on the Archie Live-CD. You could boot from Archie or another Live-CD and check what module it has loaded for the network.

sullivanva · 2005-09-02 12:22:59

So, this is what hwd says:

Network     : No PCI card or onboard chip

And this is what lshwd says:

03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Creative Labs|EMU10K2 Audigy IEEE1394 Firewire Controller (unknown)

And this is what the FSM says:

Moron!  Why do you keep buying Dells?

phrakture · 2005-09-02 14:53:37

sullivanva wrote:

So, this is what hwd says:
Network     : No PCI card or onboard chip
And this is what lshwd says:
03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Creative Labs|EMU10K2 Audigy IEEE1394 Firewire Controller (unknown)
And this is what the FSM says:
Moron!  Why do you keep buying Dells?

LOL. I'd say you report this to z4ziggy/rasat to have them update the lshwd tables.

Other than that, see if this helps:
http://www.intel.com/support/network/ad … x/e100.htm

From what I can tell, e100 is not part of the kernel, it is a standalone module. If you cannot get your network connection up during install, I'd suggest just doing the CD install, and rebooting and messing with it there. Get the source tarball, or pacman package if it exists, and build it...

Gullible Jones · 2005-09-02 14:58:01

Just get some PCI ethernet card... If you machine has a PCI slot. Dell seems to really like skimping on hardware.

(Dell's Dimension 3000, for example, has no space for an extra hard drive, and the HDD it comes with is apparently hard to remove. In addition, it has some outdated APM stuff for power management, and - get this - no AGP slot.)

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#1 2005-09-01 03:01:50

Intel Pro 100M

#2 2005-09-01 04:07:24

Re: Intel Pro 100M

#3 2005-09-01 12:21:43

Re: Intel Pro 100M

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Re: Intel Pro 100M

#5 2005-09-02 12:22:59

Re: Intel Pro 100M

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Re: Intel Pro 100M

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