Intel Ethernet Card not recognized

[Flux45]

Greetings,
I recently installed Unbuntu 9.04 on an external hard drive and it seems to not be recognizing my Ethernet card. I have (what windows reports to be) an Intel Pro 1000 PL card that is embedded on a D975BX2 motherboard (intel quad core 975 processor). I have looked at many threads regarding this issue, and was ultimately led to Intel's download website http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Default.aspx where they have many linux drivers but none for the Pro 1000 PL.
Is there something simple I am missing. I am linux semi-noob, first home install, but use it frequently at school.

my output from lspci is as follows:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82975X Memory Controller Hub
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82975X PCI Express Root Port
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GH (ICH7DH) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTX] (rev a2)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
04:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB X-Fi
04:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

my output from ethtool -i eth0 is : cannot get driver information, no such device.
this is the case for ethx where x is any value.

someone please help me out with this!! iv spent hours researching for myself but have come up with nothing.

thank you

[Flux45]

*bump*
anyone?

[presence1960]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=868077

[rreese6]

Linux sees the controller as an 82573L Gigabyte Ethernet Controller.
here is the driver file download
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...=2198&lang=eng

[Flux45]

i followed the directions on the link and issued commands

sudo modprobe -r e1000
sudo modprobe e1000 eeprom_bad_csum_allow=1

and get back

FATAL: error inserting e1000 (/lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernal/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter

then ran simply sudo modprobe e1000 and it returned without feedback...still no changes as far as i can tell...

[presence1960]

i followed the directions on the link and issued commands

sudo modprobe -r e1000
sudo modprobe e1000 eeprom_bad_csum_allow=1

and get back

FATAL: error inserting e1000 (/lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernal/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter

then ran simply sudo modprobe e1000 and it returned without feedback...still no changes as far as i can tell...

I did a search for that link. Try rreese6's link it is a driver for your card.

[rreese6]

Follow my link download driver then
run the attached module script after you remove the ".txt" at the end. then reboot

[Flux45]

so i download the driver linked and attempted to install with intel's readme instructions

when i make install on the drivers it comes back with a permission denied error

install: cannot remove /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko Permission Denied

no idea what to do now

[rreese6]

sudo make install

btw if it works with out the script, don't run it. the script basically detects when the wire is plugged in without rebooting if you don't have it plugged in doing boot. I had to use it on my main system

[Flux45]

Follow my link download driver then
run the attached module script after you remove the ".txt" at the end. then reboot

wait, so I should not have tried to install the driver via intel's site? because that failed me