Answering myself : ubuntu was installed with 2.6.17 kernel, backporting the
e1000 modules (v7.2.9) from this kernel version to 2.6.16-29 of ubuntu
correct the problem.
Sorry for the noise,
Jean-Michel.
2006/10/25, Pompon <pompon2@gmail.com>:>
> Hi all,
>
> I''m trying to install Xen on a dell E520 computer. I''ve a
network problem
> while rebooting on kernel vmlinuz-2.6.16.29-xen, all do work well, dom0
> (ubuntu 6.06) start but I have no network at all.
>
> When booting on ubuntu, the NIC which is a Intel Gigabit Ethernet card
> drived by the e1000 modules does work correctly, but when the kernel xen is
> booted, trying to use the eth0 NIC give me the error :
>
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>
> Even after a successful modprobe e1000 (which seems to signifacate thet
> the driver is available for xen), I got the same answer.
>
> I have try to install xen starting from binaries, and the compile it from
> source after discovering the problem but the problem persist.
> Do I have to specify something particular while compiling the xen kernel?
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> Jean-Michel.
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