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How to move from a driverfile.tar.gz file to an installed or updated driver?

More specific: I'm a new 13.10 user. My wired network doesn't work. I found that the LAN driver could be obsolete.

I got from the INTEL website, the latest driver version in the tar.gz format. Now I don't know how to install it. Is there any standard procedure? I didn't find it on the on line documentation.

Radu Rădeanu
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    How about telling us about your ethernet device? From the terminal: lspci -nn | grep 0200 What is the name of the file you downloaded? – chili555 Jan 27 '14 at 15:21
  • possible duplicate of How to install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file? – blade19899 Jan 27 '14 at 15:29
  • Further reading: How do I install extra drivers? – blade19899 Jan 27 '14 at 15:29
  • And some advice: if it aint broken do not try to fix it. Any reason to WHY you want to do this? If it is to fix a problem you have: fine. If it is just because... then Ubuntu is not the operating system you should use. Ubuntu tends to use stable software. Not bleeding edge. – Rinzwind Jan 27 '14 at 15:34
  • Thanks all for answering.
    • Device INTEL 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
    • Present driver e1000e ver 2.3.2-k
    • Available driver e1000e ver 2.5.4 downloaded and not yet installed
    • Reason of updating: the wired connection doesn't work correctly: only one PING every 60's or so, difficult (almost impossible) internet or LAN connection. The same hardware works perfectly under windows 7.
     – Salrandazzo Jan 27 '14 at 16:03
  • The driver e1000e v.2.3.2 works quite well in most other settings including three of my machines. I suspect it is something other than the driver. Are there any clues in: cat /var/log/syslog | grep -e eth -e e100 ? If the file is extensive, post the result here and give us the link: http://paste.ubuntu.com/ – chili555 Jan 27 '14 at 16:23
  • http://paste.ubuntu.com/6827064/ – Salrandazzo Jan 27 '14 at 16:39
  • @chili555 Any idea about it? I'm stuck with no ethernet wire connection. I posted the syslog dump in http://paste.ubuntu.com/6827064/. Thanks for helping. – Salrandazzo Jan 28 '14 at 20:56
  • It looks to me like you connected: " Registering new address record for 192.168.0.110 on eth0.IPv4." and then disconnected: " (eth0): device state change: activated -> disconnected (reason 'user-requested')" What is this?? vmnetBridge: Stopped bridge eth0 to virtual network 0. Is this a virtual machine? – chili555 Jan 28 '14 at 21:05
  • @chili555 Yes I use a VmWare windows XP virtual machine. The same structure (Ubuntu 13.10 + VmWare + Virtual machine winXP works perfectly on anoter laptop, an old DELL one. The problem arises only on this "new" HP. As I explained in a parallel thread (http://askubuntu.com/questions/411545/ethernet-driver-intel-82579lm-e1000e-update) I found the updated driver on the INTEL website but I can't succeed installing it. – Salrandazzo Jan 29 '14 at 09:25
  • @chili555 Here you can find the transcription of my last attempt to compile and install updated driver: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6828160/ – Salrandazzo Jan 29 '14 at 09:26

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Please be sure the prerequisites are installed:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic

Then compile:

cd ~/Scaricati/e1000e-2.5.4/src
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe -r e1000e && sudo modprobe e1000e

Verify that you are now using the updated driver:

modinfo e1000e | grep version

It ought to report 2.5.4-NAPI. Can you connect now?

You will have built the driver for your currently running kernel only. When Update Manager offers a newer kernel version, also knownn as linux-image, and asks you to reboot, you must re-compile:

cd ~/Scaricati/e1000e-2.5.4/src
make clean
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe -r e1000e && sudo modprobe e1000e
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  • [SOLVED] I'm writing this comment using the wired newtork that now is working properly. Thank you so much! I should learn more about make, make install and modprobe commands. Here link the complete transcription of the installation process. I hope that it could be helpful for someone else. One should just remember that "Scaricati" is the italian name of the "Download" folder. – Salrandazzo Jan 31 '14 at 08:10