Help: NIC isn't being detected.

Bangz · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 1:46 pm Post subject: Help: NIC isn't being detected.

My NIC is a Intel Pro100 which I assume uses eepro100.

Well, I assume its not being detected cos network isnt working.

dhcpcd eth0;
Didnt return any error messages, but eth0 doesn't show an up.

ifconfig;
Only returns lo

I figure I need to manully load the module for the NIC.

modprobe eepro100;
Returns saying, eepro100.o loaded, here is a http:// site, and the author is xxx.

dhcpcd eth0;
Still same thing. Waits for about 30 seconds, then returns to promt without an IP in ifconfig eth0.

I tried manually doing it.
insmod eepro100 eth0;
Worked, as above, showed author, website etc etc, but ifconfig still shows nothing.

lsmod shows eepro100 is loaded, and (unused).

This is where I am at now, I can't install install Gentoo Stage1 without the Net...

Below is my system specs.
XP2100+
8RDA+
512MB XMS3200
Intel Pro 100+

Yes the 8RDA+ has onboard LAN, but I prefer to use my Intel NIC. Which, my Windows Partition is using perfectly.

I also tried manually setting an IP.

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

But, when I do this, I can't my Gateway, so Obviously isnt working.
Also note, throughout this, my I don't get any flashing on my switch, so no data is going thru the ports...

-JeaN- · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:57 pm Post subject:

Hello bangz,

Looks like to your problem there is 2 solutions, of both i don't guarantee success :

1) Boot with 1.4rc1 CD, works for most people with network problems, including me, and then go one with the cd2 install mounting it and using the stage / grp you need.

2) Boot with 1.4rc2 CD, and at boot prompt do "gentoo nonet" and then manually load the modules as you did already, could be a problem with autoloading of modules. Don't know if this will work or not...

Btw configuring your card with ifconfig won't work the way you are doing. If you use a DHCP server, you can't provide a "private" ip like "192.168.71.X" one. One thing you could try is check under windows your ip/gateway ( type "ipconfig /all" in a command line prompt ) and use them to configure your card with ifconfig under gentoo.. Could help for the install process but then you'll anyways need to set a dhcp setting so your gentoo will automatically get the new ip each time.

Here is my piece of advice, looks like a popular problem

hope this helps, good luck

STiAT · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 3:00 pm Post subject:

hmm..i got intel Pro100, and using the eepro100 module, working fine for my MSI OnBoard LAN....

Don't know what you have done, and havn't any suggestions to you, but for that network card you described, it works fine for me...

I got this message too (who the author is), but after i did modprobe and dhcpcd eth0, i got an ip adress of my dhcp server...

I know that isn't really much help, but i can enshure, the module is fine for your card...

It isn't detected automatically, that i can enshure

Is that card you use on-board or is it pci?

I got the MSI 845E Max2 motherboar with that card on-board...

Bangz · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 3:05 pm Post subject:

No, my DHCP Server is an Internal LAN DHCP. I have one of my servers running the DHCP server handing out private address, and its working fine.

My entire LAN is accepting DHCP information from my server, which tells them there IP, gateway and DNS. It worked fine for my first Gentoo install, which was on an OLD Celeron Computer.

I would prefer not to boot with an older RC, because I don't have any more blanks

But, worst comes to worst, I'll do it, I was hoping there was a simpler solution to this.

Obviously, when I manually configure eth0 with an IP address it would have recieved from the DHCP server, and it was't able to ping the Gateway, there is a problem with the NIC.

The problem is, I'm not a Linux expoert yet. If I do Gentoo nonet, what does that actually do? Tell Gentoo I want to install all the modules myself and don't probe?

As I said in the first post, giving it a valid IP doesn't make it worth either.

Is this a known problem with Gentoo and Intel NICs?

Bangz · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 3:07 pm Post subject:

Bangz · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 3:25 pm Post subject:

OK, good and bad news.

eth0 = onboard Realtek NIC. dhcpcd eth0 with my cat5 in onboard NIC, works immediately.

however, insmod eepro100 eth1 works, but still cant get on my LAN.

Oh well, I think I'll just scrap my Intel NIC and use the onboard LAN, I doubt it will mean any noticable difference.

rtn · Guru Joined: 15 Nov 2002 Posts: 427

Try using that ifconfig command to staticly assign an ip address, then give
yourself a default route with your gateway:

Bangz · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 4:00 pm Post subject:

As I said above, I already tried giving the Intel NIC a static IP and manually doing it, but it didnt work.

Obviously an issue with Gentoo and Intel Pro NICs.

-JeaN- · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 4:14 pm Post subject:

Do you ever use the onboard Lan ?
If not you should disable it maybe on the bios, and then your NIC on PCI would be eth0. Might work.

Give a try to the "gentoo nonet", it just tells the boot process not to load the net support, therefore supposing you do it manually.

Bangz · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 4:28 pm Post subject:

-JeaN-, thats a very good point, never thought of that.

I'll try it tomorrow. Although, Im tempted to simply loose the Intel NIC and stay Onboard.

guero61 · l33t Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 811 Location: Behind you

Yet again, I'm too lazy to give the precise URL, but I had (among other people) difficulty with getting specific NIC's to work with ACPI. It was solved by passing pci=noacpi to the kernel at boot time.