Linux doesn't see NIC on Dimension 9100

Question

I have a new Dimension 9100 and have installed Fedora 4.
(Many distributions did not recognize the SATA although Fedora did - but it could not repartition it unfortunately...)

Anyway, my question is now that the operating system is installed, everything seems fine except that the computer does not seem to recognize the (onboard) Network Controller. Has anyone found any solution to this problem?

Thanks

Anthony

chazilla · Answer

Anthony:

Visit http://downloadfinder.intel.com

From this site download the following Tar file:
e100-3.4.14.tar.gz

Tar this file to your prefered directory once you have done this do a make install.
This will create all the directories for file.

Then type
modprobe e100

Make sure you have created an eth0 interface - "ifcfg-eth0" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
After this typu ifup ifcfg-eth0 it should find it by globbing..
make sure your network is setup static/dynamic what ever you are using

restart init.d and you should good..

let me know your results..

In return I have a question I also have downloaded fedora 4 on a dimension 9100 but have no sound have you addressed or had any problems with your sound driver?

quasan · Answer

Thanks very much for the tip. Fedora now sees the NIC and I am writing to you from my new machine. As for the sound, I have a Soundblaster card built into the system, which Fedora seems to detect OK, but nothing happens when I ask it to play a test sound...

I will look into this, although for me the sound card is much lower priority than the network.

Thanks again,

Anthony

chazilla · Answer

Anthony: If you do find a solution to sound please let me know. Thanks.. Chad..

Lead_dog · Answer

I wanted to thank you for this info. It fixed my NIC install on the Dimension 9100. I couldn't get the Intel instructions to work. I am on the net with Linux.

Now to look at the built-in sound card which doesn't work either.

quasan · Answer

I have some progress on the sound...

Mine is a SoundBlaster card. Fedora was correctly detecting it, but nothing was happening.
I surfed the net a bit and found the ALSA web site (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture), followed their instructions for installing drivers etc and the sound card worked!

When I rebooted, it stopped working and I haven't been able to get it to go since!!!

Anthony

quasan · Answer

Hmmm... Success (of sorts). I ran alsaconf as root and it re-detected everything and it all works again for now - actually this is an exaggeration. I can hear system sounds, but not yet CDs.

The alsa web site is www.alsa-project.org

Good luck!

Anthony

dsbInspiron · Answer

For those who can't get audio from a CD, you may need a plugin to read the audio files from a cd-rom... http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/xmms-cdread.html?hl=com&cs=xmms-cdread:PN:0:0:0:0

coolby · Answer

I installed FC 4 in my deimension 9100 and also can't see nic, I tried the way your guys suggested, but I don't know how to cp this driver from cd to machine in text mode? my machine didnt have any gui at all. I also need to fix this problem? Thanks

quasan · Answer

To do this, try the following:   1) Make sure the CD is mounted  - try typing 'ls /media/cdrom' to get a listing of the directory. If it works, you're mounted. If not, type 'mount /media/cdrom' first.   2) Make sure you're logged on as the superuser (type 'su -' and give the superuser password)   3) Type 'cd /tmp' to change directory to the tmp directory   4) Type 'tar -xzf  /media/cdrom/e100-3.4.14.tar.gz' to unpack the file into a directory   5) Type 'ls' to find the name of the directory (it's probably e100-3.4.14)   6) Change directory to the right directory 'cd e100-3.4.14'   7) Type 'more README' to get instructions on how to compile the driver and follow them...   Good luck   Anthony

coolby · Answer

Thank you. I already finished make install e100. but when I type modprobe e100 in ~/src. It say no modprobe command? Any hint?

dsbInspiron · Answer

You are probably getting that b/c you are not logged into root or you are just logged in as root and not in the root environment.  When you do 'su', make it 'su -' instead.  That should log you into the enviornment.  If that doesn't work, I think modprobe is located here '/sbin/modprobe'. Message Edited by dsbInspiron on 09-08-2005 03:15 PM

87squirrels · Answer

Thanks Chazilla, the updated e100 solved the problem on my Dimension E510 also. Now, on to the sound card!

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