Problems with Intel Pro/1000 and OpenSUSE 11

English Network/Internet
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Just finished my install of 11.0 this afternoon, and now I am needing some help getting my network connection working.

I have the following hardware:

SuperMicro X7DAL-E Motherboard (Intel 5000X chipset)
2 Intel e5410 Xeon Processors
12gb DDR2 FB-DIMMs
nVidia GeForce 7600GT
etc.
etc.

The motherboard uses Intel’s 82563EB network interfaces, and YaST shows the following device:
80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)

It also indicates;
Drivers:

  • Active: Yes
    modprobe: Yes*
    Modules:
  • modprobe e1000e*

Under Network Settings in YaST, it lists the device as Not connected (though it is) and the following message:

“Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device (eth0, wlan0) is not present. This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for wlan devices)”
:confused:

Has anyone had success with getting this network controller working? Any help would be great. Keep in mind that I am relatively new to SUSE.

Thx

2

Check /var/log/messages for any messages starting with or containing e1000e or e1000. Post them here.

Run this command as su in konsole;

cat /var/log/messages |grep e1000e

and

cat /var/log/messages |grep e1000
3

no error messages for either command

4

This is a long shot, as su in konsole run ;

rmmod e1000
modprobe e1000 eeprom_bad_csum_allow=0

lsmod to see if you’ve loaded e1000 or e1000e and adjust the above command accordingly.