Thinkpad A20m - eth0 keeps dropping connections, how to try other modules?

[andre]

First off, the NIC works great on windows2000.

On Linux , serveral tested distros Slackware SUSE RH8 RH9 ...the connection most noticably the adsl connection goes down every minute or so.

dmesg | grep eth
e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100+ Mini PCI
e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex

lsmod | grep e100
e100 60644 1 (autoclean)

From everyting I read on the net it looks as if I should be running the eepro100 module, instead of this default e100 I got from RH9.

How do i go about replacing the e100 mod???
I've looked into, rmmod, insmod, and can't put the peices together. I even tried to compile a new kernel so it would replace the module for me, but I have yet to compile a working kernel
:confused:

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by andre

How do i go about replacing the e100 mod???


I've had problems using the e100 module in a couple of my work pc's and I just switch to eepro100 which seems to it.

Have a look/search in /etc/modules.conf for e100 and change it to eepro100.

i.e.

alias eth0 e100

change to

alias eth0 eepro100

and then run

depmod -ae

as root.

If e100 is still being loaded, do a grep on e100 in your /etc directory to see what other config file could be loading the module.

[andre]

Hey, that was weird, I tried all that last night, or so I thought, excluding the depmod -ae, (reboot instead) with no luck.

but tried it again to your post's specifications and voila! eepro100 has now replaced e100. Havn't tested stability yet. Got my fingers crossed

[andre]

I didn't get much luck with this new module..

adsl-connect ..sais...

Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
local IP address 65.95.143.229
remote IP address 64.230.254.105
Modem hangup
Connection terminated.
Connect time 0.5 minutes.
Sent 30 bytes, received 30 bytes.
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
local IP address 65.93.221.60
remote IP address 64.230.254.105

dmesg sais...

divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
divert: no divert_blk to free, ppp0 not ethernet
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device ppp0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:10:A4:A7:35:1F, IRQ 11.
divert: no divert_blk to free, ppp0 not ethernet
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device ppp0

I don't know what this divert stuff is maybe from the iptables rules? ...anyway, I cant' do much with a .5 min connection time. so I'll see if I can change some parameters I assume I can put the parameter options in the module.conf and activate the changes with depmod -ae ?

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by andre
I'll see if I can change some parameters I assume I can put the parameter options in the module.conf and activate the changes with depmod -ae ?

That was my next suggestion. See if the text files in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking have any mention of options you can try.

The Intel site may have something.

Does the adsl config scripts have some kind of time limit set?

Maybe something in http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/how-to-connect.txt to help?

[andre]

I give up, I dont' feel like spending more time on this problem, I've read other people having the same problem, but about 3 years ago caus this is a 3 year old laptop. I just got a linksys pc100... thanks for your help I've learned alot about modules.