[FC1], 2.6.8-rc2 kernel, new motherboard problems

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 22 July 2004 12:02, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Thursday 22 July 2004 08:22, James Wilkinson wrote:
[...]
>>That's the way I understand it. The forcedeth driver is listed in
>> the 2.6.7 tree as "Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet support
>>(EXPERIMENTAL)" under the "Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)" menu, about
>> nine up from the RealTek 8139 driver. So make sure you select
>> "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers".
>
>Good grief James, I must be going blind, and the optometrist says I
>check at 20/10, but you are correct.  I have a kernel building with
>that in it now.  I blew it all away and re-unpacked as I'd tried to
>apply those patches from the developers website and they mostly blew
>up.
>
>I have both the 8139too and forcedeth in the build, so I'd assume my
>modprobe.conf is going to need an "alias eth0 8139too", and an
> "alias eth1 forcedeth" in it?  and reverseing those assignments to
> test. Humm, wonder if I have a second cat5 jumper (I have 5 ports
> empty on a netgear 8 port switch yet :)  Humm, when builtin, that
> isn't going to effect it.  Anyway, time to hit send and reboot. :-)
>
>>HTH,
>>
>>James.

Which, when done, did not manage to elicit any responses whatsoever 
in /var/log/dmesg referencing any ethernet but the 8139too.  This 
strikes me as rather odd, so a rebuild as a module is underway.
I'd say this thing is being perverse, but it doesn't have the 
equipment to be. :-)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, 
Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.