Slackware installing integrated lan adapter

Abijr · 01-08-2008, 12:52 PM

Hi,
I have a little prob. with getting Slackware to recognize the integrated LAN adapter. it doesn't appear to be recognized at startup.

I have tried other distros in the same box and all have worked fine with the hardware., such as fedora, opensuse , mandriva, so there should not be a problem with the drivers.

The lan adapter is integrated to an intel 945g motherboard, in a Gateway GT3020m. And I'm using Slackware 12.
Thnx in advance.

Nylex · 01-09-2008, 02:37 AM

Can you show us the lspci output for the device please?

Abijr · 01-09-2008, 12:43 PM

# lspci -v | awk '/Ethernet/' RS=
03:08.0 Ethernet Controller: Intel Corporation 82201G (ICH7 Family)
LAN Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem : Gateway 2000 Unknown device 5049.
Flags : bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at 50014000 (32-bit non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 1000 [size=64]
Capabilities : [DC] Power Management version 2

Nylex · 01-10-2008, 03:15 AM

Try a "modprobe e1000" and see if that helps.

Abijr · 01-10-2008, 03:44 PM

Yes it worked,
thanx a lot!

Nylex · 01-11-2008, 01:21 AM

Are you sure the module wasn't loaded already? If it's not loading automatically, you'll want to add "/sbin/modprobe e1000" to your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.