Salix xfce 13.37 and e100 Intel ethernet card

[Bart]

Hi all,
I have just installed Salix Xfce 13.37 on a vaio FS285H. Everything works fine except the ethernet card: it's supported by the e100 module which is loaded correctly during boot. I can not connect in any way. I ran netconfig and I configured my network. I also tried wicd with no results. The wireless card still works correctly (an intel ipw2200).I've never had problems with the ethernet card on Slackware. How do I proceed? Ideas?
Thanks in advance.

[gapan]

Have you tested it with slackware 13.37? If it does work there, there is no reason why it shouldn't work with Salix. But it could be a kernel regression with the 2.6.37.6 kernel.

You're also not providing enough details? What does actually happen? Do you get an IP or not? Are you connecting with dhcp or with static ip? What is the output of lspci? What is the output of ifconfig? Is the right module actually loaded?

[Bart]

I have tried this laptop with different release of Slackware: 12.2, 13.0 and 13.1 but not with the last 13.37. I never had any problems with this card.
This is my ifconfig -a:

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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:*
         UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:*
         inet addr:10.5.1.100  Bcast:10.5.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
         inet6 addr: fe80::213:ceff:fe0b:f261/64 Scope:Link
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:1360 errors:5 dropped:5 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:1176 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:1326746 (1.2 Mb)  TX bytes:159528 (155.7 Kb)
         Interrupt:22 Base address:0xc000 Memory:b0006000-b0006fff

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
         inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
         RX packets:346 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:346 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         RX bytes:28304 (27.6 Kb)  TX bytes:28304 (27.6 Kb)

As you can see eth1 (wireless interface) works and I get the ip via dhcp (10.5.1.100) but nothing for eth0.

lspci

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML
Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI
Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce Go
6200/6400] (rev a1)
06:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
06:03.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000
OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
06:03.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/7620 Combo
CardBus, 1394a-2000 OHCI and SD/MS-Pro Controller
06:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG
[Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ -
PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile (rev 03)

lsmod | grep e100

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e100                   28071  0
mii                     3334  1 e100

The module e100 is loaded correctly. Honestly I do not know what to depend. Initially I thought that the two network interfaces (eth0 and eth1) were reversed but Wicd works with witeless interface (eth1), so I rule out this problem.
Thanks for the reply.

[Bart]

Unfortunately I believe that the ethernet card is broken. I made a lot of tests with different linux distributions and also with the official windows cd recovery and the problem remains.

[gapan]

I would think it's more likely that the cable is bad, than the card being broken. It has happened to me. So if you have another ethernet cable, try with that too. Also inspect the ethernet socket visually. See if everything seems in place.

[Bart]

I tried with a different cable and the problem remained. I also tried the cable on another computer and the network is operating normally. Looking at the ethernet socket does not seem to have anything weird. I do not understand why he stopped working overnight. Thanks a lot for the help.