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From: Grant on 12 Mar 2010 16:08
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:25:45 +1100, Grant <omg(a)grrr.id.au> wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>Tries a couple times to install slack-13 to an old pIII box and the
>installer fails to setup the Intel pro/100 NIC with e100 driver.
>
>I also tried to manually setup the NIC but the response to the
>ifconfig command was something like SIO??? device not found message.
>
>modprobe works and lsmod shows the driver is loaded along with mii.
>
>Another possibility is that the tiny e100 firmware blob is missing?
>There's no sign of it under /lib/firmware.
>
>Anyone seen this issue?
>
>Hmm, try the huge.s?
>
>Nope, it does the same thing after auto setup NIC:
>
># ifconfig eth0 192.168.3.22 up
>ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>
>lsmod correctly shows e100 + mii are loaded.
>
>What went wrong here?

Mr Slackware forgot to include the e100 firmware: /lib/firmware/e100/*,
there's three files in there

~$ ls /lib/firmware/e100
d101m_ucode.bin d101s_ucode.bin d102e_ucode.bin

I didn't fix the issue, just made a workaround, copied firmware to
the install CD and then copied it to /lib/firmware/ from CD prior
to opening the network connection.

Please fix missing NIC firmware for slack-13.1?

Grant.
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