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Why not get the src rpm? I would suggest that would make more sense, no?

What is the outpout of this command:

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lspci -vv | grep -i net

That will get you started on what card you have and perhaps what driver you should be using:

alternately you may also want to run:

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ethtool -i <ethdevice>

also, what happens if you do this:

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modprobe -r e1000e 
modprobe e100

FYI, if it doesn't work, you will have to modprobe the e1000e driver again (no -r) in order to connect (or reboot)

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If I remember correctly, they don't put out src RPMs, so sorry there. How did you try to build it? Did you do an rpmbuild -ba or -bb?

did you try to extract it and build? I suggest you just rpmbuild or rpm --rebuild against the tgz file.

After that, you will then have to find the RPM it created and install it, then I would suggest a reboot.

Hi Mark54g, thanks again.

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lspci -vv | grep -i net

gives

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00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection (rev 02)

Previously I'd tried rpmbuild -tb against the tar.gz. I've tried again with rpmbuild -ts to create a source then ran rpmbuild --rebuild against the src.rpm. End result is either

Quote:

Makefile:170: *** *** Aborting the build. *** This driver is not supported on kernel versions older than 2.4.0. Stop.
make: Leaving directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/e100-3.5.17/src'
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1HV9jv (%build)

or if I modfiy the Makefile to force it to carry on I get

Quote:

Makefile:190: *** Warning: kernel source configuration (UP)
Makefile:191: *** does not match running kernel (SMP)
Makefile:193: *** Continuing with build,
Makefile:194: *** resulting driver may not be what you want

Can't figure out what the problem is as

Code:

[root@Fedora15 craig]# rpm -qa kernel-devel
kernel-devel-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64
[root@Fedora15 craig]# uname -r
2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64

seems to be in order.


Sorry, afraid I've wasted your time with the driver install as it is in fact already installed as shown by modinfo e100. modprobe -r e1000e followed by modprobe e100 cuts off my network entirely and following a reboot e1000e is back as the driver in use.

Try opening a bug with the Fedora folks.

Thanks Mark54g, I think this has something to do with the stage at which the Ethtool config is applied as I had the same problem using Ubuntu 10.10 on this machine but configuring the driver directly on my Windows installation seems to work fine.

NIC's tend to be dirt cheap these days so I think I'll take the easy way out and just pick up a new one thus getting rid of the incompatibility.

Thanks again for all the help.

Buy a new Intel Pro NIC that uses the e1000 driver.