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llev

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Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 568

It looks like Slitaz misses the e100 kernel module

Hi,

I'm trying to set up a HP Vectra VL 420, but I get no network.

I'm booting Cooking from the mirror via gpxe, so the network card works for sure!

From data gathered on the web I think it needs the e100 kernel module, but I can't find it in the repo. Could someone compile and add it?

Thanks in advance.

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Technical data to prove my sayings:

- ifconfig -a: dummy0, lo, tunl0 (and ifconfig eth0 up: no such device)

- dmesg|grep eth0: this gives no output

- lsmod: ppdev, floppy, parport_pc, parport, button

- from the HP docs and Hardware Detection Tool, the card is an Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 VE (PCI id: 8086:2449[8086:3013]), also known as Intel 82701BA/CAM ICH2/3.

kultex

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 1,175

Re: It looks like Slitaz misses the e100 kernel module

first which version you are using - in 5.0 - RC1  kernel config is

1642 CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_INTEL=y

  1643 CONFIG_E100=m

  1644 CONFIG_E1000=m

  1645 CONFIG_E1000E=m

I have aalso a e100 card which works fine

in 4.0 I think it was built in the kernel - so it was also no problem, but you cant see it in dmesg

check the output of  lspci -vvnn - mine is something like this:

02:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller [8086:103d] (rev 83)    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]

Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-

Latency: 64 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11ble) [size=4K]

Region 1: I/O ports at cf40 [size=64]

Capabilities: <access denied>

Kernel driver in use: e100

llev

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Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 568

Re: It looks like Slitaz misses the e100 kernel module

Hi,

Thanks for answering.

As I told, I'm booting Cooking from the mirror. It's supposed to be the latest Cooking, isn't it?

From your config snippet it seems those three drivers should be built as modules. But if you search for a file named e100 in the cooking packages: http://pkg.slitaz.org/search.sh?file=e100 you find no e100*.ko file for the appropriate kernel (the only kernel module found is for the 2.6 linux-libre kernel).

I didn't try 4.0. In cooking, lspci shows there is no driver, of course:

02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100 VE

    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-

    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-

    Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes

    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11

    Region 0: Memory at dfeff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

    Region 1: I/O ports at ac00 [size=64]

    Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

        Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)

        Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

kultex

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 1,175

Re: It looks like Slitaz misses the e100 kernel module

this must be either a very new bug or gpxe related

I am booting now from iso - this one I did today (its rolling from 27. 4.)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92249974/slitaz-rolling-lowram.iso

and see attachment

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mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: It looks like Slitaz misses the e100 kernel module

@llev

What is the kernel build date:

[c]uname -a[/c]

The most recent release of cooking on Feb.16,2014 was missing many kernel modules including e100.

The date on the mirror in /pxe/cooking is Feb.19,2014

This commit was made after cooking was released to include the missing kernel modules:

http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/7d9fe8b78117

e100.ko.xz was added because modules.list was not updated after e100 was changed from being built in-kernel to a module. The modules.list tells the build script what modules get packed in the linux.tazpkg

Bellard and Pankso are the only admins with access to the mirror.

llev

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Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 568

Re: It looks like Slitaz misses the e100 kernel module

Can't test now, but since I booted from the mirror, that should answer your question about build date.

I still don't understand why pkg.slitaz.org doesn't find any e100.ko.gz file. Also the file list for package "linux" is empty.

I hope the mirror can be updated, because gpxe seems to be the only working way to boot this computer.