Intel Onboard Gigabit LAN

wombatman · 08-13-2003, 12:04 PM

Well, I just finished building my first computer, and the motherboard has onboard Gigabit LAN. Windows XP picked this up fine and I have no problems with connecting to the internet there (I have Roadrunner Cable). When setting up Mandrake 9.1, however, the LAN is not detected. I have searched for an appropriate driver, but the only ones I have come across are not for my board (D875PBZ). Just wondering if anyone knows of any place that might have a driver for this, or would be willing to create one (I can hope).

finegan · 08-13-2003, 03:12 PM

The important part is the actual chipset of the device, what's the output of:

/sbin/lspci

with regards to the ethernet controller.

Cheers,

Finegan

wombatman · 08-13-2003, 05:28 PM

Ok, ran /sbin/lspci and got a list of stuff. I only wrote down the Ethernet Controller information, but if you need the other stuff, just let me know.

Ethernet Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1019

That's all I got.

wombatman · 08-15-2003, 12:25 AM

I was reading the post fixed at the top about nuisances, and I was curious if anyone knows anything about the Unknown Device 1019 posted above, or if anyone know of any projects related to the more recent Intel Chipsets (D875PBZ).

finegan · 08-16-2003, 03:48 AM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...003/07/3/72424

Intel e1000 chipset... go figure, supported. As root:

/sbin/modprobe e1000

If you add the line:

alias eth0 e1000

to /etc/modules.conf it should get loaded properly at boot.

Cheers,

Finegan

wombatman · 08-17-2003, 02:07 PM

Ok. I tried the modprobe thing, and I got an error. Unfortunately, I can't copy/paste this all yet, so I can't tell you exactly what was wrong. I went ahead and added the alias line into the modules.conf. Finegan, can you venture a guess as to what the problem is without the error message, or will you need it?

finegan · 08-17-2003, 08:59 PM

Code:

root@orwell:/home/fin# modprobe e1000
/lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.o.gz: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.o.gz: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.o.gz: insmod e1000 failed

?

Yeah... I guess its not actually an e1000 chip... crapola.

If that's the error, post back, I gotta poke around a bit more I guess.

Cheers,

Finegan

wombatman · 08-17-2003, 10:41 PM

Sadly, that is the error I was getting. I do appreciate all the help you're giving though, Finegan. Please let me know if I can provide you with any additional info to help you.