I installed R5A15.1 and I am using a Intel Pro/1000 gigabit nic. It worked fine with R4A5 but in the new release the nic will drop after a random amount of time. when I restart /etc/init.d/networking it will come back but then drop again. I am using the e1000 module that came with R5A15.1. So does anyone know if this module is broken or somthing?

Did you mean e100? As far as I can tell (and that's not very far) there is no e1000 drivers in R5A15.1 They have the e100, but not the e1000.

I also have an Intel 82547EI chip on my Asus Mother board (P4C800-E) My problem is that the network is only getting enabled as a 10MB, not a 100 MB link that I have.

I grabbed the drivers from Intel's site:
http://tinyurl.com/d7qce

And followed the instructions for building and installing (doing the modprobe).

If I do an lsprobe, the module shows that it is loaded.

I've tried adding an alias to my /etc/modules.d/alias of:

alias eth0 e1000

and rebooted, but that didn't help.

And if I follow the instructions in:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4554

and run netcardconfig and select yes to the first question (Use DHCP) then I can get it up to 100MB, temporarily. But a reboot will put it back to 10MB.

Hope this helps.

Peter

And now I've rebooted, halted, restarted, and it comes back at 100MB.

Now to hunt down a Gigabit Switch.................

My bad. It does look like the e1000 is shipped in this version of KnoppMyth. at least it is in the kernel sourcecode.

I'm back to where I started: Stuck at 10MB.

Are there any diagnostics or network configuration tools that I can run?
netcardconfig doesn't seem to get me back to 100MB anymore.

If I grep my /var/log/messages for e1000, I get:

May 25 13:53:06 mythme kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
May 25 13:53:06 mythme kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex

Any ideas?

I ended up installing the drivers from the intel site and that fixed it. I think the included ones could be some kind of wierd.

Oh and I am running a 1gb

"Sep 23 21:57:28 mythtv kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex"