ethernet module headache

Hi,

I am trying to have an Intel pro/100 eth card recognized. For the first
thing, there is this annoying via-rhine stuff which is getting used at bood,
when I put in modules.conf eepro100 module and never spoke about via-rhine.
Then when manually I do modprobe, insmod, whatever on eepro100 to have it
appear with lsmod, I have weird acpi_set_pwr_state, pci_drv_unregister and
pci_drv_register stuff undefined. Is the eepro100.o badly compiled? (i'm
using debian woody). Should I somehow compile it myself? Any hint
appreciated, since this is a full night I am struggling over this, and I am
not sure I am responsable here.

Cheers.

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:46:25 +0100, Iwonder wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to have an Intel pro/100 eth card recognized. For the first
> thing, there is this annoying via-rhine stuff which is getting used at
> bood, when I put in modules.conf eepro100 module and never spoke about
> via-rhine. Then when manually I do modprobe, insmod, whatever on eepro100
> to have it appear with lsmod, I have weird acpi_set_pwr_state,
> pci_drv_unregister and pci_drv_register stuff undefined. Is the eepro100.o
> badly compiled? (i'm using debian woody). Should I somehow compile it
> myself? Any hint appreciated, since this is a full night I am struggling
> over this, and I am not sure I am responsable here.

I have a Pro/100 (B) running in Debian Woody with the 2.4 kernel and I
once had one in the 2.2 kernel. Both work(ed) perfectly faultlessly so I
doubt there's a problem with Debian's build of the module.

What model is your card? I don't think the A is supported in Linux at
all, and there may be problems with the newest ones (> S) with the
eepro100 driver. If yours is very new, you may want to try the Intel
written e100 driver instead (this doesn't seem to be available in the
Debian kernel, you will probably have to get it from Intel).

Regards, Ian

Iwonder <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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> "Ian Northeast" <(E-Mail Removed)> a ?crit dans le
> message de
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>> If yours is very new, you may want to try the Intel written e100
>> driver instead (this doesn't seem to be available in the Debian
>> kernel, you will probably have to get it from Intel).

Just grab the latest kernel and compile it yourself. Its in the standard
2.4.24 kernel.

> My card is very new indeed. It works with e100, that I got started with
> Knoopix. I am taken aback by the abilities of this "distribution" (?) to
> configure everything so easily, when it's a source of never ending problems
> with debian. Why aren't such efforts, so, so, so crucially important for the
> success of linux, put into Debian?

I believe you want something like

apt-get install discover

Although I've never actually used it myself (I'll be playing with it
soon enough though).

Discover is what Knoppix uses (Knoppix is based on Debian, btw). If the
configuration of Debian frightens you, you can boot Knoppix, and then
install it onto the hard disk. The script to install it is called
knx-install.

http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqInstall

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"Ian Northeast" <(E-Mail Removed)> a écrit dans le message de
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> What model is your card? I don't think the A is supported in Linux at
> all, and there may be problems with the newest ones (> S) with the
> eepro100 driver. If yours is very new, you may want to try the Intel
> written e100 driver instead (this doesn't seem to be available in the
> Debian kernel, you will probably have to get it from Intel).

My card is very new indeed. It works with e100, that I got started with
Knoopix. I am taken aback by the abilities of this "distribution" (?) to
configure everything so easily, when it's a source of never ending problems
with debian. Why aren't such efforts, so, so, so crucially important for the
success of linux, put into Debian?

Well, so now the problem is how to get started with debian again, that I
enjoy for his apt-get abilities and clean system, from this knoopix
CD-system. I think knoopix has Debian as its underlying architecture so it
might reduce to shift the whole thing on hard drive (as for debian, sarge
distro is broken for and woody is old kernel and things)