eth0: Device not found (e1000: Intel PRO/1000 Network Driver)

Hello all,

I just bought a new computer and I do not manage to make NIC to work.
It's an Intel 82573L Gigabit. I'm using Mandriva 2006. Here is what I
did until now. Please be aware that I'm by no mean a network guru! All
what I know, I learn it trying to solve this problem.
1- insmod e1000 # OK. No error message.
2- modprobe e1000 # OK. No error message.
3- dmesg | tail # I see a new line "Intel PRO/1000 Network Driver - v.
6.0.60-k2
4- lsmod | grep e1000 # it's there
5- lspci | grep Ethernet
04:00.0 Ethernet Controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit ...
6- ifconfig eth0
eth0: Device not found
7- ifconfig
return info for "lo" device only.

I'm stuck! I've added e1000 to /etc/modules and rebooted. Then lsmod |
grep e1000 didn't return anything. Was it supposed to?

Anybody has an hint to what to do next? How the eth0 gets alive? Is the
simple addition of its module is enough? Do I have to do something to
configure somewhere?

Yannick

> I'm stuck! I've added e1000 to /etc/modules and rebooted. Then lsmod |
> grep e1000 didn't return anything. Was it supposed to?

What file did you add it to? Complete name of file please. What
exactly did you add to the file? What other files have you touched?
What shows up in the boot messages? It's possible you haven't done
enough configuration to trigger an attempt to load the module.

Since you haven't done this before, you are probably better off using
the standard network configuration tool to do this. Sorry, I haven't
used Mandrake/Mandriva for many years, so I can't remember the name of
this tool. You should be able to find it from the standard
configuration menu.

Hello Allen,

Thanks to reply.

I finally managed to make my NIC work. I got the newest driver (6.3
instead of 6.0), compile it. That's it!

I did try, at the very beginnig, to configure my NIC using the Mandriva
network tool. But I had to see eth0 to do this. After compiling the new
version, I could execute successfully ifup eth0. Then, I configured it
using Mandriva tool.

For your information, /etc/modules is a file in Mandriva where you can
add modules you want to be loaded at boot time.

Yannick