E100 Driver

[Tom H]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Saturday, November 06, 2010 05:00 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>>> On Saturday, November 06, 2010 03:20 PM, Joshua Wambua wrote:
>>>> Output of dmesg | grep e100, cat /etc/modprobe.conf, mii-tool
>>>>
>>>> 1. dmesg | grep e100
>>>>        [    0.223241] pci 0000:02:08:0 Firmware left e100 interrupts
>>>> enabled; disabling
>>>>        [    1.243888] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.24-k2-NAPI
>>>>        [    1.243892] e100: Copyright(x) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
>>>>        [    1.243928] e100 0000:02:08.0: PCI INT A ->    GSI 20 (level, low)
>>>> ->    IRQ 20
>>>>        [    1.271516] e100 0000:02:08.0: PME# disabled
>>>>        [    1.278460] e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xf0101000, irq 20, MAC
>>>> addr 00:1b:38:93:dc:71
>>>>
>>>> 2. cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>>>>        cat: /etc/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> 3. mii-tool
>>>>        eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
>>>
>>> Boy...that means everything checks out...
>>>
>>> How is it configured on the Windows side? dhcp? static?
>>>
>>> What do you get from ifconfig -a, route -n, cat /etc.resolv.conf?
>>
>> Not quite."/etc/modprobe.conf" is deprecated. Joshua should grep for
>> e100 in "/etc/modprobe.d" as an alternative.
>
> /me cringes at his /etc/modprobe.conf file...

Soon, nothing'll be when it used to be. :)

Thinking about it, given the output of "dmesg | grep e100", it's
loading so checking modprode's no longer necessary.