Intel Ethernet Card not recognized

[Flux45]

ALLLLSO (sorry for flooding my own thread) do i need to do anything similar to

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
iv been doing a lot of reading and many people suggest this as a part of the process but never really explain why

[rreese6]

The script should not have an extension, I put ".txt" on it so I could post it here.

Remember that some of the commands need sudo in front of them, from your list you made you left sudo off of some of the lines, like make install

[Flux45]

im sorry for my total noob-ness, like i said its my first real experience with Ubuntu. I really appreciate that you are taking the time to help me out. After running through the steps I still have not had success unfortunatly. Hopefully you can read my console I/O and see exactly what is going on. Im anxious to get this fixed and hope we can get this solved tomorrow.

matt@matt:~/Desktop$ tar zxf e1000e-1.0.2.5.tar.gz
matt@matt:~/Desktop$ cd e1000e-1.0.2.5/src
matt@matt:~/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src$ sudo make install
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/netdev.o
  CC [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/ethtool.o
  CC [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/param.o
  CC [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/e1000_82571.o
  CC [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/e1000_ich8lan.o
  CC [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/e1000_80003es2lan.o
  CC [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/e1000_mac.o
  CC [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/e1000_nvm.o
  CC [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/e1000_phy.o
  CC [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/e1000_manage.o
  CC [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/kcompat.o
  LD [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/e1000e.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
  CC      /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/e1000e.mod.o
  LD [M]  /home/matt/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src/e1000e.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic'
gzip -c ../e1000e.7 > e1000e.7.gz
# remove all old versions of the driver
find /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic -name e1000e.ko -exec rm -f {} \; || true
find /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic -name e1000e.ko.gz -exec rm -f {} \; || true
install -D -m 644 e1000e.ko /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko
/sbin/depmod -a || true
install -D -m 644 e1000e.7.gz /usr/share/man/man7/e1000e.7.gz
man -c -P'cat > /dev/null' e1000e || true
man: 
cannot write to /var/cache/man/cat7/e1000e.7.gz in catman mode
e1000e.
matt@matt:~/Desktop/e1000e-1.0.2.5/src$ cd /etc/modprobe.d
matt@matt:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo touch e1000
matt@matt:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo nano e1000

AT THIS POINT NANO OPENS AND I INSERT THE OPTION EEPROM_BAD_CSUM_ALLOW=1 LINE SUGGESTED. CTRL X, SAVE, SAVE AS E1000

matt@matt:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo modprobe -r e1000
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/e1000, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/e1000 line 1: ignoring bad line starting with 'options'
matt@matt:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo modprobe e1000
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/e1000, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/e1000 line 1: ignoring bad line starting with 'options'
matt@matt:/etc/modprobe.d$ cd /home/matt/Desktop/
matt@matt:~/Desktop$ ./e1000-mod-script
Usage: ./e1000-mod-script \<interface\>
       i.e. ./e1000-mod-script eth0
matt@matt:~/Desktop$ ./e1000-mod-script eth0
eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
matt@matt:~/Desktop$ ./e1000-mod-script eth1
eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found
matt@matt:~/Desktop$ ./e1000-mod-script eth2
eth2: error fetching interface information: Device not found

[rreese6]

Flux, Thank you for posting the output. there are things in your that are different than mine. I investigated my server and noticed that my interface is using e1000 whereas it appears that your will need to have the e1000e. So what we will do tomorrow is remove some of what we have done and reconfigure for the e1000e driver. Evidently you have a newer revision Ethernet port than I have.
I will give you some commands now to begin with.

cd /etc/modprobe.d
sudo rmmod e1000
sudo rmmod e1000e
sudo rm e1000

more to follow

[rreese6]

At one time the ethernet did not work because it was disabled in 8.10 pre-release.
Check the output of the blacklist

 cd /etc/modprobe.d
less blacklist |grep blacklist

We are looking to see if the e1000e is listed there. If it isn't we will continue.
if it is there then the bug is not fixed and the interface has been disabled to protect your hardware.
if it is blacklisted, then you will need to get another NIC (Network Interface Card).

[rreese6]

We are here because the driver is not blacklisted (see previous post)
I am assuming you are running Ubuntu 9.04?
Make sure you have the Kernel Headers

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

If that was not already in the system.
Check to make sure the driver is still there

 ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e

if it is, continue, otherwise we will reinstall it

sudo rmmod e1000e
sudo modprobe e1000e 
sudo nano modprobe.conf

in nano add this line:
[CODE]alias eth0 e1000e[/CODE
exit (CTRL X) and save

Restart the network

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Check for the interface

 ifconfig -a

[rreese6]

Hi Flux45, let's start at post #25 today..

[Flux45]

morning rreese, up bright and early i see...
here is the console output from said commands

matt@matt:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
[sudo] password for matt: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
matt@matt:~$ ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e
e1000e.ko
matt@matt:~$ sudo rmmod e1000e
matt@matt:~$ sudo modprobe e1000e
matt@matt:~$ sudo nano modprobe.conf
matt@matt:~$ /etc/init.d/networking restart
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces...                                          ifdown: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: Permission denied
ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: Permission denied
                                                                         [fail]
matt@matt:~$ ifconfig -a
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:240 (240.0 B)  TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)

pan0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 6e:87:1c:59:9a:8d  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

matt@matt:~$

[rreese6]

Yes I was up very late and early
LOL I made a mistake...this time I forgot sudo....

here is the network restart

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

then do the ifconfig -a again

[Flux45]

looks like maybe some progress was made...i still have no connection though

matt@matt:~$ ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e
e1000e.ko
matt@matt:~$ sudo rmmod e1000e 
matt@matt:~$ sudo modprobe e1000e
matt@matt:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces...                                   [ OK ] 
matt@matt:~$ ifconfig -a
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:240 (240.0 B)  TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)

pan0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 4e:6d:e8:0b:8e:46  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

matt@matt:~$