Message-ID: <48FF2259.1010800@myrealbox.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:53:45 -0400
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
CC: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Issue with e1000
References: <94a0d4530810220448x41241926r8f93cde4463b9864@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530810220448x41241926r8f93cde4463b9864@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 964
Lines: 33

Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying 2.6.27 and 2.6.27.2, and I haven't been able to use
> the e1000 module.
> 
> I let my system handle the networking, Network Manager in Fedora 9,
> but I also tried this:
> ifup eth0
> Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
> 
> The module is not loaded automatically so I'm loading it myself,
> nothing happens.
> 
> I'm also trying this:
> modprobe e1000 debug=16
> 
> I see nothing special:
> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k3-NAPI
> Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
> 
> Am I missing something?

Depending which hardware you have, you may need to use e1000e instead.

http://lwn.net/Articles/278016/

--Andy
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/