E100 Driver

[NoOp]

On 11/10/2010 09:50 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:51 PM, Joshua Wambua wrote:
>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Connection timed out
> 
> Sorry Joshua,
> 
> At this point, it is get a usb nic. If nobody is maintaining the e100 
> driver, there is little that can be done.
> 

Ummm...

$ nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: connected

- Device: eth0  [eth0]
---------------------------------------------------------
  Type:              Wired
  Driver:            e100
  State:             connected
  Default:           yes
  HW Address:        00:0C:F1:BA:<snipped>

  Capabilities:
    Carrier Detect:  yes
    Speed:           100 Mb/s

  Wired Properties
    Carrier:         on

$ lshw -c network
...
*-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci at 0000:02:08.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:0c:f1:ba:<snipped>
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=e100
driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI firmware=N/A ip=<snipped> latency=32
maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes

$ lsmod | grep e100
e100                   28211  0
mii                     4381  1 e100

e100 works just fine for me. (Ubuntu from Dapper thru Maverick on 5
similar machines).

I would have jumped in somewhere else, but there are so many
non-threaded new thread responses to this subject (I count 19 so far)
that I stopped trying to keep track of them after the first few.