Re: [E1000-devel] Unable to install Intel PRO/1000 PL

[Brandeburg, J. <jes...@in...>]

I believe you're having a user error.

>From the dmesg output you have a very old driver loaded from an insecure
and out of date version of RHEL4 (no service packs)

You also apparently did not follow my instructions, which is a little
frustrating.  Specifically you didn't rmmod e1000 before trying to load
the new one.

You need to load the new driver that you just built (e1000-7.1.9) which
means you must rmmod the old driver and modprobe/insmod the new one.

The (default RHEL) driver you're loading does not have support for the
hardware you're trying to load it on

Thanks,
  Jesse

-----Original Message-----
From: Mihir Shah [mailto:sh...@em...]=20
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:57 PM
To: Brandeburg, Jesse
Cc: Sasha; e10...@li...
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Unable to install Intel PRO/1000 PL

Dear Madam/sir,

Thank you very much for your prompt response.

As you have asked us to perform several commands and send an output to=20
you. I am attaching the zip file where you can find all outputs of the=20
commands.

Again we appreciate your help and looking forward in this.

Sincerely,
-Mihir
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Mihir Shah
University of North Carolina
301 Molecular Modeling Lab
Beard Hall School of Pharmacy CB#7360
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
Phone: (919) 966-3459 Fax: (919) 966-0204
Cell Phone: (919)265-3584
E-mail: sh...@em...
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Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
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> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Mihir Shah wrote:
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>> Dear Madam/Sir,
>>
>> We would appreciate your help in installing Intel PRO/1000 PL network
card.
>>
>> We downloaded e1000-7.1.9.tar.gz and tried to install it on our new
PC=20
>> with the Intel PRO/1000 PL network card. We installed the RedHat
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>> v.4 (kernel version 2.6.9-11.ELsmp).
>>
>> We followed the steps in the README file, and everything was ok until

>> step 6.
>>
>> When giving command: ifconfig eth0 <IP>
>>
>> we got the following error messages:
>> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
>> eth0: unknown interface: no such device.
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> what does lspci show, is the ethernet device listed there?
> can you also send the output of the dmesg command?
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> try these steps instead:
> 0) script
> .5) lspci -vvv
> 1) tar xvzf e1000...
> 2) cd e1000-...
> 3) cd src
> 4) make
> 5) rmmod e1000; insmod ./e1000.ko
> 5.1) dmesg |tail
> 6) ifconfig -a
> 7) ifconfig eth0 <address> OR dhclient eth0
> 8) dmesg|tail
> 9) <press CTRL-D to stop script>
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> send me the typescript file you just created
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> Thanks
>   Jesse
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Thank you

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Mihir Shah
University of North Carolina
301 Molecular Modeling Lab
Beard Hall School of Pharmacy CB#7360
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
Phone: (919) 966-3459 Fax: (919) 966-0204
Cell Phone: (919)265-3584
E-mail: sh...@em...
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