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Blue-Tiger

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Registered: 2010-03-30

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Ethernet card not recognized!

Hi there!
I was trying to install  Arch Linux on my new Laptop. However I'm having trouble because the network device does not get recognized. According to http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Gig … CI-Express , the e1000e driver should take care of the card.
After 'modprobe e1000e', all that shows up in 'dmesg' are 2 new lines informing me of the version of the e1000e driver and a copyright notice -- no mention of a new device.
'ifconfig' does not show an eth0 device, either. So I don't really know what to do, any tips are appreciated.

The laptop is a T410, a fairly new model with fairly new hardware, so that might be the problem. Could it be that support for my ethernet device was only added in kernels after 2.6.30 (which is what the current install media sports)? In that case, what could I do?

i_love_penguins

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Re: Ethernet card not recognized!

Never worked with this hardware and don't know if every time a link becomes ready, it has to appear in dmesg, but:
did you

ifconfig -a

to show all devices (even those, that aren't up)?
That (-a flag) solved the issue for me some time ago as I wondered why my device never had been registered.

Last edited by i_love_penguins (2010-03-30 14:04:33)

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Blue-Tiger

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Re: Ethernet card not recognized!

Hi! Thanks for the quick reply
eth0 doesn't show up with ifconfig -a, either.

Last edited by Blue-Tiger (2010-03-30 14:34:03)

perbh

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Re: Ethernet card not recognized!

Can you show us the result of 'lspci' ?

Blue-Tiger

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Re: Ethernet card not recognized!

lspci says that I have an Intel 82577LM network device. Sorry for not mentioning that in my original post.
(I can't give you the exact output of lspci right now since I'm currently running Windows on the laptop (I know, I'll only get coals next xmas ). As soon as I'm done I'll try to give you the verbatim wording)

perbh

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Re: Ethernet card not recognized!

Hmmmm - this link doesn't give you too much hope:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/155071

I wonder if you maybe could use 'ndiswrapper' ?

[edit]
Mind you - it does say that 2.6.31 and 2.6.32 kernels are working ....

Last edited by perbh (2010-03-30 16:09:08)

Blue-Tiger

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Re: Ethernet card not recognized!

hmm... well it sounds like it does work on 2.6.31 and 2.6.32, so that's only half-bad, then.

[edit]
But the problem of getting Arch to install still remains. I guess you guys have no idea when the next install media will be released? I've read through the last months releng-mailarchive, and there was some talk about a 2010.03 release, but there's no recent status updates. And the only "test" images that have been posted (as far as I can see) seem to have a broken AIF (which as far as I as an Arch-newbie understand is the installation program): http://build.archlinux.org/isos/  (the note about the broken AIF is in the changelog)

Last edited by Blue-Tiger (2010-03-30 16:32:31)

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Re: Ethernet card not recognized!

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93365

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