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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: thefamousnomo on July 18, 2009, 12:12:41 PM

Title: nic firmware on compaq evo n400c
Post by: thefamousnomo on July 18, 2009, 12:12:41 PM

howdo?

having some issues with the nic on this laptop, Intel 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 100. keep getting the

e100: eth0: e100_request_firmware: Failed to load firmware "e100/d102e_ucode.bin": -2

even with the firmware-2.6.29.1-tinycore.tce installed. have tried downloading alternative blobs and also prefixing d101s_ucode.bin with e100_ but still no joy!

any ideas?

love the distro, best fun ive had in ages! :D

Title: Re: nic firmware on compaq evo n400c
Post by: libretto on July 27, 2009, 05:23:52 AM

I have the same problem same hardware on a Toshiba Libretto L3.

Title: Re: nic firmware on compaq evo n400c
Post by: curaga on July 27, 2009, 05:29:08 AM

Try renaming the firmware extension from .tce to .tcem. If this helps, I'll rename it officially too.

Title: Re: nic firmware on compaq evo n400c
Post by: libretto on July 27, 2009, 07:09:38 AM

curaga,
"Try renaming the firmware extension from .tce to .tcem."
Still not working. the error shows up before loading the firmware.

Title: Re: nic firmware on compaq evo n400c
Post by: curaga on July 27, 2009, 07:21:57 AM

It doesn't matter if the first load fails, after all the firmware can't be loaded before it's there. The point in the rename is to force a rescan of hardware.

Do you get network connectivity with the rename?

Title: Re: nic firmware on compaq evo n400c
Post by: libretto on July 27, 2009, 07:27:24 AM

curaga,
Sadly, still not working with the rename extion.

Title: Re: nic firmware on compaq evo n400c
Post by: libretto on July 30, 2009, 07:22:55 PM

curaga,

I reinstall everything and the firmware works just the original tce extention no need to rename. eth0 is up and running.

Thanks.

Title: Re: nic firmware on compaq evo n400c
Post by: thefamousnomo on August 01, 2009, 04:45:19 AM

sorry, was on hols there

cheers for the replies, but the rename doesnt make any odds im afraid :(

Title: Re: nic firmware on compaq evo n400c
Post by: thefamousnomo on August 05, 2009, 02:51:48 PM

*bump*

anybody any ideas please?

Title: Re: nic firmware on compaq evo n400c
Post by: robc on August 05, 2009, 03:13:08 PM

Quote

having some issues with the nic on this laptop, Intel 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 100. keep getting the

e100: eth0: e100_request_firmware: Failed to load firmware "e100/d102e_ucode.bin": -2

even with the firmware-2.6.29.1-tinycore.tce installed. have tried downloading alternative blobs and also prefixing d101s_ucode.bin with e100_ but still no joy!

any ideas?

You will always get this message if you use dhcp on startup because the firmware is loaded after dhcp.sh is executed. You can load the firmware then manually turn the dhcp client off then back on in the control panel.
Or add "/etc/init.d/dhcp.sh &" to your bootlocal.sh script and boot with nodhcp. <- this will make that message go away

There is also some info on the FAQs page: http://www.tinycorelinux.com/faq.html#firmware (http://www.tinycorelinux.com/faq.html#firmware)

Title: Re: nic firmware on compaq evo n400c
Post by: roberts on August 05, 2009, 04:33:27 PM

Thanks robc for bringing this to my attention.
I will move dhcp start to the after restore section of tc-config starting with 2.3rrc1