no eth0 in 10.10, Intel 82566DC

[chili555]

I have no idea how to apply those patches.

Neither do I. I do not see any reference to invalid checksum. Do you believe this is related?

[boydude]

Neither do I. I do not see any reference to invalid checksum. Do you believe this is related?

i think i have the same problem, anyone know how to apply the patch?

[chamilton]

Hi,
I'm not sure if anyone still has this problem, but I came up with a fix. I have the same ethernet controller as the OP (Intel 82566DC) and was getting no indication from my modem that it was receiving valid data packets. My fresh install of 64 bit 10.10 didn't allow me to connect (I never got a DHCP lease). I tried re-inserting the module e1000e using

sudo modprobe -f e1000e

which returned told me that the e1000e.ko had an error with the kernel (or something to that effect). My fix was to go to search the intel site and download their latest e1000e linux drivers supported by the kernel and apply them.

Direct link to drivers:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=15817&ProdId=2775&lang=eng

then I extracted the contents and installed the driver(I assume you can extract with the GUI tool yourself).

cd ./e1000e-1.2.20/src 
make
sudo make install
sudo rmmod -f e100*
sudo modprobe e1000e
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient eth0

Which gave me a working internet connection. I hope this helps anyone with similar issues.

Cheers

[2manyhobbeez]

I have an Intel 82567LM ethernet adapter which does not work for me in Kubuntu 10.4 (or any other distro that I have tried, including Suse). I downloaded the Intel driver from their website and then tried to build/install it but am having fundamental problems. Hopefully it's just my unfamiliarity with with the bird that is the problem.

The basic issue is that I can't run make. It says some headers are missing. I read somewhere that you have to do a
sudo apt-get install build-essential

and a
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server

first. Of course I have to get these from the cd since I have no network, so I preceeded these commands with a
sudo apt-cdrom add

command which looks like it works. However the subsequent apt-get install commands don't look like they work. There's a lot of error messages pertaining to not being able to connect with the http sources that must be in /etc/apt/sources.lst of course. But it really doesn't look like anything significant happens and anyways the make command still complains about the missing headers.

Am I doing something wrong here?

thanks, george

[chili555]

Let's see why the native driver is not doing its job. Please run and post:

sudo modprobe e1000e
dmesg | grep e100

Thanks.

[2manyhobbeez]

Here you go. Since I have no network on the linux side of my dual boot sys it is very difficult to communicate.

Modprobe returned nothing at all.

george@Kubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe e1000e
[sudo] password for george:
george@Kubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe e1000e
george@Kubuntu:~$ dmesg | grep e100

[ 0.187080] pci 0000:00:1f.5: reg 24: [io 0xe100-0xe10f]
[ 4.579824] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 1.0.2-k4
[ 4.579827] e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999 - 2009 Intel Corporation.
[ 4.579868] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 4.579877] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 4.579972] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 4.811352] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: (unregistered net_device): The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid
[ 4.821687] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 4.821693] e1000e: probe of 0000:00:19.0 failed with error -5
george@Kubuntu:~$

[chili555]

4.811352] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: (unregistered net_device): The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid

This is a well known issue: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382

Here is a fix: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1276211&page=4

See post #35 and following.

I had actually thought it was fixed in later Ubuntu versions. What does this tell us?

modinfo e1000e | grep -i version

[2manyhobbeez]

george@Kubuntu:~$ modinfo e1000e | grep -i version
version: 1.0.2-k4
srcversion: A664BFB98E9F21DA03E6A17
vermagic: 2.6.35-22-generic-pae SMP mod_unload modversions 686
george@Kubuntu:~$ ^C
george@Kubuntu:~$

[2manyhobbeez]

I note that the thread you referred to ('Here is a fix') does a make in the middle of it. My original post above says that I can't do a make, apparently make is not installed. I need to know how to install it from the dvd since I can't connect to the Internets.

Thanks for the advice so far.

george.

[2manyhobbeez]

Actually make is working. I failed to notice that it is getting part way thru the intel makefile before it fails on something in there. I'll try the other ('Here is a fix') solution suggested by chili555.