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I have a problem with creating the interface by loading the e1000 module (kernel from 2.6.16 to 2.6.17-rc2). The card is in X60s and it's pci-express. Sometimes i after loading e1000 module I get in logs the module is loaded but there is no interface (ifconfig -a).
This is happening only sometimes, however I cannot figure out what are the conditions which cause this problem. Of course there is no problem under "other" system. I did full check of the card using pc doctor programm and the test is ok.

I found a comment on intel site that such thing can happen due to a driver error or a systemboard failure. I hope it's not the latter...

Does anybody have such problem with with X60 / X60s ?

If I force driver to load with the EEPROM error (commenting one line in e1000_main.c) the driver seems acting correctly, however one time I got wrong MAC address (which is not strange if the checksum is wrong I guess).

After forcing module to continue after EEPROM failure check I don't have any debug info (with debugging messages on) in logs and it seems that the card is working correctly.

Any ideas?
How to check the EEPROM card ?
How to find out if the systemboard is correct?
Can be this MSI or PCI-Express issue?

cheers

I've seen this when udev goes a bit mad (admittedly with my help and tries to assign the same ethx port to both wireless and wired interfaces.. If you're running FC5, this appears to be fixed by an initscripts update in the updates-testing repo.

Basically, the wireless interface was getting eth0 when no cable was inserted, and I also had e1000 aliased to eth0.

Hope this helps,
Jon.

Depending on the distro you are using with the available modules for that specific kernel version, e1000 might be broken and you might wanna try using e100.

Cheers.

thanks for replays

it seems that the driver is loading correctly if i plug the cable in before the boot. if it's unplugged then i need to ignore the error report about the EEPROM checksum. After that i got fully working card.

I haven't tried e100 driver. I didn't even know it works with 1Gb versions.

cheers

Hm, same problem here with a t60...
I also commented the goto line in e1000_main.c, so everything seems to work, but thats not realy a good solution
Are there any new informations?
Florian