E100 Driver

[Christopher Chan]

On Saturday, November 06, 2010 05:00 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>> On Saturday, November 06, 2010 03:20 PM, Joshua Wambua wrote:
>>> Output of dmesg | grep e100, cat /etc/modprobe.conf, mii-tool
>>>
>>> 1. dmesg | grep e100
>>>        [    0.223241] pci 0000:02:08:0 Firmware left e100 interrupts
>>> enabled; disabling
>>>        [    1.243888] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.24-k2-NAPI
>>>        [    1.243892] e100: Copyright(x) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
>>>        [    1.243928] e100 0000:02:08.0: PCI INT A ->    GSI 20 (level, low)
>>> ->    IRQ 20
>>>        [    1.271516] e100 0000:02:08.0: PME# disabled
>>>        [    1.278460] e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xf0101000, irq 20, MAC
>>> addr 00:1b:38:93:dc:71
>>>
>>> 2. cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>>>        cat: /etc/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> 3. mii-tool
>>>        eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
>>
>> Boy...that means everything checks out...
>>
>> How is it configured on the Windows side? dhcp? static?
>>
>> What do you get from ifconfig -a, route -n, cat /etc.resolv.conf?
>
> Not quite."/etc/modprobe.conf" is deprecated. Joshua should grep for
> e100 in "/etc/modprobe.d" as an alternative.
>

/me cringes at his /etc/modprobe.conf file...