FC6 not connecting -- amplification

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 19:16 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:17:11 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:58 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> [...]
> >> > 
> >> > So verify that the "e100" driver is loaded via "/sbin/lsmod".
> >> 
> >> All right, making assurance doubly sure, I logged in using "su - root"
> >> *and* did cd before /sbin/lsmod.
> >> 
> >> I see columns labelled Module, Size, and Used by. "e100" is not mentioned
> >> in any of them -- and without a Net connection, I have no way to download
> >> anything. Can I get it off the CDs, as I must have been doing before? 
> > 
> > It should have been installed by default.  Verify that you have the
> > following file on the system:
> > 
> > 	/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko
> > 
> > (yes, those are graves or "backticks"--the other character on the "~"
> > key).  
> 
> I think I must have retyped that correctly, because bash turned the uname
> part into "2.6.19-1.2895.fc6" and left the rest. But I also think I do not
> have it, because bash then added ":No such file or directory"

Hmmm.  Let me try:

[root at prophead ~]# ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2869.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko

> 
> > If you do have the file, then (as root via the "su -") try this
> > command:
> > 
> > 	modprobe e100
> > 
> > to force the driver to load.  
> 
> I tried that anyway, and sure enough (I think) it responded with a line
> saying "-bash: modeprobe: command not found"

You must be root ("su -") and it's "modprobe" (only one "e").  If you're
not root, then "/sbin/modprobe e100".

> I did the install, as usual, in custom mode -- and tried to leave out
> games, chat, and anything else I thought surely I'd never use (but took
> lots of development stuff, because I do run betas like Pan and Dillo).
> This has been my usual practice for years -- only, this time, I must have
> mis-guessed something inessential that I should have taken.
> 
> Or this may be the same machine on which recently I got so snarled up in
> yum dependency hell that I finally commanded "yum remove elfutils" -- and
> didn't read the list of other things it would remove carefully enough. (I
> don't think it is. I think I just gave up, wiped that install with DBAN,
> and installed again.)
> 
> Anybody know a straightforward way to get it from the CDs?

It's part of the kernel RPM.  If you've installed the kernel, you've got
it.

So, here's what to do:

1. Run "su -" and become root
2. Run "ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko" and
   verify you have the file.
3. Delete the "/etc/sysconfig/hwconf" file and run kudzu to rediscover
   your hardware:

	rm /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
	kudzu

4. Run "modprobe e100" to load the driver
5. Run "ifconfig" and verify you have device eth0.
6. Try to configure eth0 using the command line:

	ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.254 netmask 255.255.255.0

7. Try "ifconfig" again.  You should see something like:

[root at prophead ~]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:FE:02:16:38
	  inet addr:192.168.0.254  Bcast:192.168.0.255
		Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20f:feff:fe02:1638/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:33007499 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:15837216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2322911622 (2.1 GiB)  TX bytes:616269113 (587.7 MiB)
          Interrupt:193 

The "HWaddr", "inet6 addr:", "Interrupt" and traffic info (RX/TX bytes)
will differ from what I show above, but you get the idea.

8. If you see that stuff, great!  Edit the /etc/modprobe.conf file and
add a line that reads:

	alias eth0 e100

9. Run your normal configuration.  Delete all existing configs and put
in the new stuff you want.

That should handle it.
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