Re: Intel Pro/100 VE
thanx to all who responded to this thread. The problem I feel is now resolved and I will explain how I did it for documentation purposes. the suggestion by Faheem, though I'm sure it works, I did not take it because I did not know enough about kernel recompilation to make it work, I kept running into walls. I keep running into issues about conflicting kernel versions when I try installing it. In addition, since I don't have internet access at this point, using apt-get (I'm pretty sure it's not on the cd, though I could be wrong) to get the package and then recompiling a whole bunch of stuff just isn't worth it. Frank had also responded to this thread (although I haven't quoted him here) offering the advice of using lspci to grab the ID of the ethernet card and then using bvi to hex edit the eepro100.o module file. Although this approach does require me to grab the bvi package, it doesn't require much effort after that. Since I was new to bvi, I will use the commands I used here bvi eepro100.o \3810 //ID in the adapter is 1038 but you need to flip it r // replace 3D// this is the ID of the card, 103D :w// save :q// quit Now with that all said and done, I simply am running into so many hardware issues due to the my new laptop. And so instead of using stable debian, I am going to test the sid version because I have read of success with it. Hope this helps other people Paul Quoting Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:12:05 -0400, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey peoples, I have been trying to get debian to work and have been very unsuccessful. I just got a Toshiba M35-s320 laptop and have been trying to install the network adapter with the 3.0r2 disk image. I did some research and I believe that imy network card, Intel PRO/100 VE is supported in the EEPRO100 driver but everytime I enable it it says insmod failed. I checked my bios and there is no PlugNPlay option so I don't think it's a bios conflict. Intel supplies a e100 driver but I, for the life of me cannot seem to be able to download it. Any ideas? You are aware that the e100 driver exists as a standalone module source package in Debian, right? I would prefer using this one over eepro100, since I have had some issues in the past with eepro100. I've had no problems compiling e100 as an external module with a variety on kernels, using kernel-package. Also, eepro100 is in the kernel as of 2.4.20, so you could just use a more recent kernel. *** Package: openafs-modules-source Priority: extra Section: net Installed-Size: 4464 Maintainer: Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Source: openafs Version: 1.2.11-1 Depends: bison, flex, debhelper, libpam0g-dev, libncurses5-dev, kernel-package, e2fslibs-dev Filename: pool/main/o/openafs/openafs-modules-source_1.2.11-1_all.deb Size: 4489072 MD5sum: b088707d130b502894a42a3e0f282d65 Description: The AFS distributed filesystem- Module Sources AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative management. . This package provides source to the AFS kernel modules. HTH. Faheem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Pro/100 VE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now with that all said and done, I simply am running into so many hardware issues due to the my new laptop. And so instead of using stable debian, I am going to test the sid version because I have read of success with it. I'd suggest trying Knoppix as a starting point, rather than sid. It is likely to make a good effort at configuring for your hardware. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Pro/100 VE
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanx to all who responded to this thread. The problem I feel is now resolved and I will explain how I did it for documentation purposes. the suggestion by Faheem, though I'm sure it works, I did not take it because I did not know enough about kernel recompilation to make it work, I kept running into walls. I keep running into issues about conflicting kernel versions when I try installing it. In addition, since I don't have internet access at this point, using apt-get (I'm pretty sure it's not on the cd, though I could be wrong) to get the package and then recompiling a whole bunch of stuff just isn't worth it. Recompiling the kernel is a useful skill and much easier (with kernel-package) that is may at first appear. The tutorial at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html is pretty nice. I corresponded briefly with the author and he really did his homework. In any case I am surprised that just simply installing one of the precompiled Debian kernel images from 2.4.20 or later did not work for you. But perhaps there were other difficulties in doing so. Faheem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Pro/100 VE
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:12:05AM -0400, Paul wrote: Hey peoples, I have been trying to get debian to work and have been very unsuccessful. I just got a Toshiba M35-s320 laptop and have been trying to install the network adapter with the 3.0r2 disk image. I did some research and I believe that imy network card, Intel PRO/100 VE is supported in the EEPRO100 driver but everytime I enable it it says insmod failed. I checked my bios and there is no PlugNPlay option so I don't think it's a bios conflict. Intel supplies a e100 driver but I, for the life of me cannot seem to be able to download it. Any ideas? It is supported, but it is probably newer than the eepro100 driver in kernel 2.4.18 (which is used in the woody installer). Since intel seems to use a new PCI ID for every revision, this breaks autodetection. There are several ways for solving this : - find an unofficial woody installer that uses a newer kernel (I don't know if/where) - compile a newer kernel - change eepro100.c in the 2.4.18 kernel source to include your card (somewehere at the bottom). You can see what PCI ID your card is with lspci (first lspci to look for the bus id of your card, then lspci -n to find the numeric pci id) - (what I usually do) install bvi (or another hex editor), and edit eepro100.o (search for 8086 1038 and replace it with 8086 10xx (find xx with lspci as above)). Now the card with revision 0x1038 isn't supportyed anymore, but yours is) Frank Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian W. Kernighan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Pro/100 VE
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:12:05 -0400, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey peoples, I have been trying to get debian to work and have been very unsuccessful. I just got a Toshiba M35-s320 laptop and have been trying to install the network adapter with the 3.0r2 disk image. I did some research and I believe that imy network card, Intel PRO/100 VE is supported in the EEPRO100 driver but everytime I enable it it says insmod failed. I checked my bios and there is no PlugNPlay option so I don't think it's a bios conflict. Intel supplies a e100 driver but I, for the life of me cannot seem to be able to download it. Any ideas? You are aware that the e100 driver exists as a standalone module source package in Debian, right? I would prefer using this one over eepro100, since I have had some issues in the past with eepro100. I've had no problems compiling e100 as an external module with a variety on kernels, using kernel-package. Also, eepro100 is in the kernel as of 2.4.20, so you could just use a more recent kernel. *** Package: openafs-modules-source Priority: extra Section: net Installed-Size: 4464 Maintainer: Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Source: openafs Version: 1.2.11-1 Depends: bison, flex, debhelper, libpam0g-dev, libncurses5-dev, kernel-package, e2fslibs-dev Filename: pool/main/o/openafs/openafs-modules-source_1.2.11-1_all.deb Size: 4489072 MD5sum: b088707d130b502894a42a3e0f282d65 Description: The AFS distributed filesystem- Module Sources AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative management. . This package provides source to the AFS kernel modules. HTH. Faheem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
