Intel 82567LM e1000e driver problem

[tumtumma]

I apologies for my bad English, but i will do my best.
Ubuntu is relative new for me so I hope that you could help me out.

While installing "Ubuntu 8.04 LTSServer 64 bit" there was no network device found.
After the installation i tried to install de drivers from the Intel site with their README.txt
see link below:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=15817&ProdId=3003〈=eng

the driver file is located in /home/user/drivers/e1000e-1.0.2.5

/lib/modules/2.6.24-24-server/kernel/drivers/net shows:
e1000, e1000e, e100.ko,eepro100.ko and a lot more.

I have searched the internet and ubuntu forums for a solution but I couldn't find anything useful.

I just cant get it working! Please help.

What do I know:
-I don’t have internet or an ip
-ifconfig shows only the lo but no eth0
-one light blinks sometimes and the other light is always on, when the cabel is connected
-the output of the following comment is " lspci -v | grep Eth" : 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)


extra information:
mainbord: Intel dq45cb
kernel: 2.6.24-24-server

Thanks!

[chili555]

How about letting us see:

sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep e100
sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep -i eeprom

Thanks.

[tumtumma]

sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep e100
[1353.389696] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 0.2.0
[1353.389698] e1000e: Copyright bbla bla...
[2469.906616] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 0.2.0
[2469.906619] e1000e: Copyright bbla bla...

sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep -i eeprom
NONE

I also discovered that when i do
cd /home/user/drivers/e1000e01.0.2.5/src
and do:
Sudo make install
outcome is:
sudo: make: command not found
OR i do this:
# make install (Like in README.txt)
the outcome is nothing, so i don't no if anything is happend.

In other forums their saying that something is going to happen like>
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=e1000e&page=3

[chili555]

sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep e100
[1353.389696] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 0.2.0
[1353.389698] e1000e: Copyright bbla bla...
[2469.906616] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 0.2.0
[2469.906619] e1000e: Copyright bbla bla...

That seems to indicate that the native kernel module is loading. Before we troubleshoot your compile issue, let's see if we can make the native module work. Please let us see:

sudo lshw -C network

We are hoping your ethernet card has a driver and an interface attached.

sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep -i eeprom
NONE

In this case, no news about EEPROM troubles is definately good news!

[tumtumma]

sudo lshw -C network

*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33 MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0

[chili555]

I was interested in reading this: http://groups.google.com/group/linux...da584d85?pli=1

Especially this:

In Ubuntu support for these ICH10 NICs was added to kernel 2.6.27-6.9:

You have an earlier kernel, 2.6.24-24.

One option is to re-install a later version, 9.04, for example. Another option is to try to get the downloaded file compiled. Are you able to connect to the internet, wirelessly, perhaps? Please open System -> Admin -> Synaptic and install, if it's not already there, build-essential and linux-headers-generic. Each of these will add other packages which you should accept.

I am going a bit by memory here; it has been a while since I worked with 2.6.24-xx.

Then do:

cd /home/user/drivers/e1000e01.0.2.5/src
make
sudo make install
sudo rmmod -f e1000e

This gets the old, non-working module unloaded.

sudo modprobe e1000e

...and the new one loaded.

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

Now can you connect?

[tumtumma]

i don't have the possibility to connect to the Internet so i can't download: build-essential and linux-headers-generic.

is it not possible to get build-essential and linux-headers-generic from the ubuntu cd ?

I went toe /etc/apt/sources.list and removed the # from

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04_Hardy_Heron - Release i386 (20070419.1)]/ hardy main restricted

and i did, sudo apt-get install build-essential (AND IT WORKED)
and, sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server (not generic) (AND THAT TO WORKED)

i am so happy right now XD

then i did your commands and now i have my ETH0 device in my ifconfig !

[tumtumma]

I have my internet now working, thanks for your help chili555!

I appreciate it very much!

[chili555]

Very happy to help! I am very glad it's working. Now I shall carve another notch in the handle of my old .44.

[Qtea]

I'm relieved to read that it has been proved to be possible to get the wireless run on 82567LM, but I wasn't able to reproduce the trick on my laptop. I downloaded the kernel module from Intel and loaded it as instructed above.

tea@kiva:~$ uname -r
2.6.32-21-generic

tea@kiva:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 19
       bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: 00:24:7e:68:6a:93
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 1GB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=1.1.19-NAPI duplex=full firmware=1.8-3 ip=83.150.115.164 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:27 memory:fc400000-fc41ffff memory:fc425000-fc425fff ioport:1840(size=32)

tea@kiva:~$ dmesg | grep e1000e
[    1.037543] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 1.0.2-k2
[    1.037546] e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Intel Corporation.
[    1.037593] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[    1.037604] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    1.037723] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
[   15.832706] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
[   15.888591] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
[   32.012892] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX
[ 1644.808314] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Down
[ 1646.473063] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX
[ 1650.236394] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Down
[ 1664.292910] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX
[ 2250.480350] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 2264.743761] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 1.1.19-NAPI
[ 2264.743764] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2010 Intel Corporation.
[ 2264.743806] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 2264.743820] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 2264.908979] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 2265.080713] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 2265.136887] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 2267.013117] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX
[ 3624.436401] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Down
[ 3633.337109] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX
[ 4074.932475] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 4074.988204] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 4076.552974] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX

I seem not to have any issues with NVM checksum like what has been reported for 82567LM. What more could I try?