[warty] lack of ethernet media autodetect (works in knoppix tho')

[Güray Sen]

This probably doesn't help you, but I had the same problem on my T20. 
Did a complete reinstall and it worked (it couldnt get a DHCP lease 
during install, but I could manually configure DHCP for eth0 after 
booting into gnome).

Also, both e100 and proee100 are loaded... when I removed proee100 I 
lost eth0.

Noah Dain wrote:

> ibm thinkpad r40, pentium-M, yada yada.  
> 
> The kernel (warty i686, i386) fails to detect media on the integrated
> intel pro/100ve.  I've tried both intel drivers and donald becker's by
> blacklisting the other and rebooting.  Manual configuration and
> running of ifplugd does not work (for obvious reasons).  Also, nothing
> appears in /var/log/messages about media changes.
> 
> So, I grabbed the latest knoppix and it does detect eth0 media, the
> kernel messages appearing on tty1.
> 
> I also have a wifi pcmcia card running via ndiswrapper, but
> hotplug+ifplugd work it just fine.
> 
> hardly a show stopper, but of some annoyance as it is a laptop.
> 
> where to go from here?
> 
> -noah dain
>