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hokapoka

Member

Registered: 2011-04-05

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] Asus P8P67 Pro motherboard missing eth0

Hey everyone

I'm setting up my new box and haven't got very far, this has to be the first time Arch hasn't automatically loaded the network driver on one of my boxes.

As the title suggests, I have an Asus P8P67 Pro (Sandybridge) which has some intel gbit interface.

I had read issues relating to a realtek interface that has issues with Wake-On-Lan so I just burnt a Ubuntu Live cd and eth0 was successfully found, so it appears that arch isn't loading the nessasary driver.

Running ifconfig -a & ls /sys/class/net on the arch installer (or even after an install) only indicate that lo is present.

Can I use the ubuntu Live CD to workout which driver / module I should be using to get the Network working?

UPDATE:

Okay I've manages to get the interface up, using e1000e driver : http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/f … le/1.2.20/

I was kinda luckly I install base-devel, I also included the 2.6 kernel-headers package, although I'm not sure if that was needed.

Copied it to a usb key and make, make install.

tar -xvzf e1000e-1.2.2.tar.gz
cd e1000e-1.2.2
make
make install

I tried to issue modprobe e1000e but it still didn't show the interface in ifconfig -a.  Maybe I should have tried to restart the network service via /etc/rc.d/network restart

Restarting the box brought up the interface.

However, this then killed all my USB ports, stuck in a PS/2 keyboard / mouse and they were fine. 

Just running -Syu atm to get the latest and greatest and install sshd so I can access it easily then see if I can get both working together.

What be be the cause of loosing USB aftering install a module for the ethernet?

UPDATE 2 :

After updating the system both the NIC and the USB have failed to be detected correctly.

And trying to re-build the e1000e driver fails complaining that I don't have the kernel Development package installed, although I do have the 26 headers package installed. 

As I was installing from the archlinux-2010.05-core-x86_64.iso it might have been too old of my hardware, I'm now trying with the latest netinstall testiso to see if the installer can find the NIC correctally.

UPDATE 3 :

Using the latest testiso sucessfully found my eth0 in /sys/class/net and so too is are the USB devices.  Yay!

Last edited by hokapoka (2011-05-18 11:14:53)

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Asus P8P67 Pro motherboard missing eth0

Just for the record, testing isos can be found http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/

stealthy

Member

Registered: 2011-05-02

Posts: 67

Re: [SOLVED] Asus P8P67 Pro motherboard missing eth0

Confirmed for Asus  P8P67 WS Revolution, thanks

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