On Apr 29, 12:33 am, Nori wrote:
> Hi. I've been a Linux user for a long time and recently switched from
> Debian Sid to Slackware 12.0 (just for the hell of it). Everything
> about this transition has gone rather smoothly... everything except
> for the setup of my ethernet card. Basically, I've read the manual
> and tried what is said there, but I can't seem to find the correct
> driver, or the correct driver doesn't seem to work properly. I have
> attempted to load many different kernel modules but none of them have
> worked. This is really a last resort; I am assuming that this is a
> pretty mundane thing to be bothered with.
>
> Here is some info:
>
> themoth@chaplas ~ $ /sbin/lspci |grep -i ethernet
> 08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network
> Connection (rev 01)
>
> themoth@chaplas ~ $ dmesg |grep eth
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
> (My wireless card works fine.)
>
> themoth@chaplas ~ $ sudo modprobe eepro100
> themoth@chaplas ~ $ dmesg| tail
> ipw3945: ERROR: No TX rate available.
> ipw3945: tx cmd rate scale failed.
> ipw3945: ERROR: No TX rate available.
> ipw3945: tx cmd rate scale failed.
> ipw3945: ERROR: No TX rate available.
> ipw3945: tx cmd rate scale failed.
> ipw3945: ERROR: No TX rate available.
> ipw3945: tx cmd rate scale failed.
> eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Beckerhttp://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
> eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V.
> Savochkin and others
>
> (I'm almost positive that is the correct module. Alas...)
>
> themoth@chaplas ~ $ ifconfig -a
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:02:45:82:02
> inet addr:209.222.194.177 Bcast:209.222.194.255 Mask:
> 255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::213:2ff:fe45:8202/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:907 errors:4 dropped:34252 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:10120897 (9.6 MiB) TX bytes:1126676 (1.0 MiB)
> Interrupt:19 Base address:0xe000 Memory:54000000-54000fff
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:2016 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:2016 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:176953 (172.8 KiB) TX bytes:176953 (172.8 KiB)
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I would really like
> to connect to my college's LAN without resorting to the wireless,
> which is ungodly slow here.
>
> Thanks,
> Nori

I also failed to include this (for what it is worth):

themoth@chaplas ~ $ uname -a
Linux chaplas 2.6.21.5-smp #2 SMP Tue Jun 19 14:58:11 CDT 2007 i686
Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2050 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Thanks again,
Nori

noridotjabi@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi. I've been a Linux user for a long time and recently switched from
> Debian Sid to Slackware 12.0 (just for the hell of it). Everything
> about this transition has gone rather smoothly... everything except
> for the setup of my ethernet card. Basically, I've read the manual
> and tried what is said there, but I can't seem to find the correct
> driver, or the correct driver doesn't seem to work properly. I have
> attempted to load many different kernel modules but none of them have
> worked. This is really a last resort; I am assuming that this is a
> pretty mundane thing to be bothered with.
>
> Here is some info:
>
> themoth@chaplas ~ $ /sbin/lspci |grep -i ethernet
> 08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network
> Connection (rev 01)
>
> themoth@chaplas ~ $ dmesg |grep eth
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
> (My wireless card works fine.)
>
> themoth@chaplas ~ $ sudo modprobe eepro100
....
> (I'm almost positive that is the correct module. Alas...)

I am pretty sure you have the wrong module. Try e100, which is the
Intel-written and supported module for their PRO/100 chips.
(Not sure why it isn't auto-loading this for you.)

On Apr 29, 12:53 am, ljb wrote:
> noridotj...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi. I've been a Linux user for a long time and recently switched from
> > Debian Sid to Slackware 12.0 (just for the hell of it). Everything
> > about this transition has gone rather smoothly... everything except
> > for the setup of my ethernet card. Basically, I've read the manual
> > and tried what is said there, but I can't seem to find the correct
> > driver, or the correct driver doesn't seem to work properly. I have
> > attempted to load many different kernel modules but none of them have
> > worked. This is really a last resort; I am assuming that this is a
> > pretty mundane thing to be bothered with.
>
> > Here is some info:
>
> > themoth@chaplas ~ $ /sbin/lspci |grep -i ethernet
> > 08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network
> > Connection (rev 01)
>
> > themoth@chaplas ~ $ dmesg |grep eth
> > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> > eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> > eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
> > (My wireless card works fine.)
>
> > themoth@chaplas ~ $ sudo modprobe eepro100
> ...
> > (I'm almost positive that is the correct module. Alas...)
>
> I am pretty sure you have the wrong module. Try e100, which is the
> Intel-written and supported module for their PRO/100 chips.
> (Not sure why it isn't auto-loading this for you.)

Thank you so much! It works now, it was e100. I guess I didn't find
it since it wasn't even in rc.modules... In any event, thanks a
bunch. I'm going to go plug my computer into a wall!

On 2008-04-29, Nori wrote:
> On Apr 29, 12:53 am, ljb wrote:
>> noridotj...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > themoth@chaplas ~ $ /sbin/lspci |grep -i ethernet
>> > 08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network
>> > Connection (rev 01)
>> >
>> > themoth@chaplas ~ $ sudo modprobe eepro100
>> > (I'm almost positive that is the correct module. Alas...)
>>
>> I am pretty sure you have the wrong module. Try e100, which is the
>> Intel-written and supported module for their PRO/100 chips.
>> (Not sure why it isn't auto-loading this for you.)
>
> Thank you so much! It works now, it was e100. I guess I didn't find
> it since it wasn't even in rc.modules... In any event, thanks a
> bunch. I'm going to go plug my computer into a wall!


Do you have udev disabled or something, or did you upgrade from a
previous Slackware release? In a stock "out of the box" unmolested
fresh installation, the e100 module will be automatically loaded.

-RW