Yep. Will do!
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 5:01pm
To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List" <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] AstLinux 1.01 Released
Dan,
If you wouldn't mind trying the e100 driver, the results would be useful to the
project.
Lonnie
On Jan 16, 2012, at 3:50 PM, d...@ryson.org wrote:
> Lonnie,
>
> I'll likely order the new NIC - in hopes of saving heartburn that would
> surely come about later. However, if there are others on the list using the
> eepro100 driver, I'll gladly "...choose to accept this mission*" and test the
> e100 kernel driver instructions that you kindly provided.
>
> Again, thanks for your help!
>
> Dan
>
> * - Mission Impossible reference noted.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 4:33pm
> To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List" <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] AstLinux 1.01 Released
>
> Dan, (update)
>
> > There's really nothing special about this NIC card. It's a garden variety,
> > low-profile PCI card that can easily be replaced - at far less cost than
> > the value of AstLinux developers' time. Ironically, the reason I bought it
> > in the first place is because the chipset (at one time) was quite widely
> > supported.
>
> Ahhh, updating to a "e1000" card would be a good idea, an Intel PCI PRO/1000
> would be good. Note you would have to edit your
> "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules" file to make the new card eth0,
> it will appear as eth2, remove the old eth0 and rename eth2 to eth0 in the
> "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules" file.
>
> But...
>
> It appears the "e100" kernel driver *might* work for you in the newer kernel.
>
> If you choose to accept this mission...
>
> Given you are now back at 0.7.10, Follow the "Upgrade from 0.7.x to 1.0.x" as
> before:
>
> http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:upgrade-0.7
>
> When in AstLinux 1.0.1 we know it still won't recognize your old NIC for
> eth0, but you can SSH in from a LAN computer using eth1. Then type:
>
> modprobe e100
>
> and see if you old NIC comes to life, looking at /var/log/messages or dmesg .
>
> If so, edit "/etc/rc.modules" and change the "eepro100" line to "e100", save
> and reboot. You should be good to go.
>
> If the modprobe did nothing, you need a new NIC, but to get back to 0.7.10,
> simply do a "Revert to Previous" for *both* the Firmware and RUNNIX, then
> reboot, you are back at 0.7.10.
>
>
> Lonnie
>
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
>
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > Thanks to your logs I see your problem.
> >
> > Your box has two NIC's one is a:
> >
> > eepro100 0000:07:04.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
> > eth0: 0000:07:04.0, 00:d0:b7:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 20.
> >
> > and the other...
> >
> > e1000e 0000:00:19.0: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> > 0000:00:19.0: eth1: (PCI Express:2.5GB/s:Width x1) 00:21:5a:xx:xx:xx
> > 0000:00:19.0: eth1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> >
> > The problem is with your first NIC, eepro100, is not longer support in
> > AstLinux 1.0.x kernel 2.6.35. It appears to be last available in Linux
> > Kernel 2.6.28.
> >
> > http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/EEPRO100.html
> >
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/216082/
> >
> > So question to Darrick, and others, is support for this "eepro100" NIC
> > included in another driver, or is "eepro100" NIC hardware SOL?
> >
> > Dan, what kind of a box is this, can the eepro100 NIC be upgraded or is on
> > the motherboard. ie, more info on your hardware.
> >
> > Lonnie
> >
> >
> > On Jan 16, 2012, at 9:20 AM, d...@ryson.org wrote:
> >
> >> AstLinux Team,
> >>
> >> Thank your for your tireless efforts. I know it's often said, but it truly
> >> bears repeating.
> >>
> >> I also appreciate the clear, unambiguous upgrade instructions, which I
> >> followed explicitly when making the effort to upgrade from 0.7.10 to
> >> 1.0.1. Everything was going according to the instructions until I
> >> rebooted. My first indication that things hadn't gone well came from the
> >> Web Interface, which revealed a number of failed registrations.
> >> ("Registration Sent" was shown for all providers under SIP Trunk
> >> Registrations.)
> >>
> >> Further investigation revealed many pages of Notices, Warnings, and Errors
> >> in the log. There are too many to list here, but I saved the file and
> >> would gladly forward it to one or more developers by private e-mail.
> >> Although I was able to access the machine by SSH and HTTPS, it was
> >> apparent that much of the trouble impacted network functionality. Even a
> >> PING to one of our providers didn't work. No IP address was revealed,
> >> suggesting we were having trouble with DNS resolution. I regret that I
> >> wasn't able to do more troubleshooting; I was anxious to get the unit back
> >> in service.
> >
> >
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