ASUS P5GD2 Marvell Yukon 88E8053 gigabit ethernet not detected/loaded

[Robert L Cochran]

Gee, that board can handle 8 SATA drives! Pretty cool.

Anyhow I'm wondering if the onboard wifi has to be shut down in order 
for the Marvell ethernet to work?

Bob Cochran


Scot L. Harris wrote:

>Went ahead and purchased an ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe motherboard for a new
>project.  Installed a Plextor 16X Double Layer DVD RW burner along with
>several SATA harddrives.  
>
>FC3 loaded however it did not detect the gigabit ethernet port or the
>built in wireless interface.  
>
>lspci tells me:
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>02:00.0 ethernet controller: Marvell Technologies Group Ltd. Marvell
>Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000 BaseT adapter (rev 15)
>
>The port gets a link light on the switch.
>
>Best I can tell the sk98lin.ko driver should have loaded.  I tried to
>load it using insmod and modprobe.  I also tried modifying
>/etc/modprobe.confg by adding alias eth0 sk98lin.
>
>The driver loads but does not appear to see the interface.  
>
>I tried searching bugzilla but did not find anything using the various
>key words I could think of.
>
>Did see a few hits via google but those covered problems with FC2.
>
>I also noted that during the install the smp kernel was loaded.  Could
>this be contributing to the problem?  Or do I have the wrong driver for
>this interface?
>
>BTW: If you get this mother board please note that it does not have an
>AGP slot.  It appears to have a modified PCI slot for graphics cards.  I
>am currently using a standard PCI graphics card which appears to work
>just fine with the built in drivers.  And at least one of the two SATA
>controllers work as expected, it recognized two of the SATA harddrives I
>installed and boots just fine.  Have not worked on getting the second
>SATA controller working yet.  Will work on that later. :)
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