[plug] fail to load e1000

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

Jon Miller wrote:
> One of our Debian servers will not load the e1000 driver for the nic.  There are 2 nics' on the server 1 Intel Pro/1000 GT and the other is a RTL8139 onboard card.  The onboard loads ok, the Intel does not.  I replaced it with another known working one and got the same results.
> Looking the the message and syslog there is no mention of the Intel card nor in dmesg.
> 
> When I try to run modprobe it just states that it cannot find the driver even though the driver is there.  It also states insmod has a problem with the IO or IRQ.  Is there a way to issue a command to either set the irq or find out what the irq is? cat /proc/interrupts does not show the card.
> What I  would like to know is how do I get this card working, considering it was working for the last several months.
> Running lspci does not show the card
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
If its not in /proc/interrupts its just because the module isn't loaded 
for that card yet (which you already know).
modprobe should find the card if its in the "standard" location 
(/lib/modules/`uname -r`)
You may need to run
# depmod -a
to get it to re-scan the area (though I would think that happens on boot).
If lspci doesn't show the card, I'd be worried; it should show up 
whether Linux has any idea about it (with a loaded module for example) 
or not, in other words _everything_ should be visible via a lspci. Are 
you sure the BIOS isn't disabling the card or some such because of the 
onboard NIC; perhaps its stopping the card from being found. I'd try 
poking through the BIOS settings a little..

Tomasz