eth2 on A7N8X-E? (fedora2-test1)

[Lennart Jonsson]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 10:17 -0600, Jared Smith wrote:
> If I remember correctly (and I could be terribly wrong), the second
> ethernet port on that machine requires the NForce drivers from NVidia...
> I know that there is at least one open-source driver in the works for
> some NForce on-board network cards, but I'm not sure on the status. 
> Hopefully, this at least points you in the right direction.
> 
> Jared Smith

Thanx for the reply. I managed to figure out what was wrong. Here it
goes in case some other newbee bumps into the problem.  The forcedeth
module was working fine (eth0), what I was missing was the sk98lin
module (eth1). So I changed the ifcfg-eth2, and renamed it to ifcfg-
eth1, changed /etc/modprobe.conf to contain the line

alias eth1 sk98lin

and then

/etc/init.d/network restart


/Lennart


 

> 
> On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 23:54, Lennart Jonsson wrote:
> > Oops, should probably name the motherboard as well. It's a Asus A7N8X-E.
> > Also, 
> > 
> >   [root at as1-6-6 root]# /bin/dmesg
> > [...]
> > forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.19.
> > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
> > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
> > eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to 0000:00:04.0
> > kudzu: numerical sysctl 1 49 is obsolete.
> > ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
> > ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8191 buckets, 65528 max) - 324 bytes per
> > conntrack
> > request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-4-72. error = 256
> > lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> > lp0: console ready
> > NET: Registered protocol family 10
> > Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c039d980(lo)
> > IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
> > divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
> > eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> > [...]
> > 
> > 
> > Any help appreciated
> > 
> > /Lennart
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:32 +0200, Lennart Jonsson wrote:
> > > I installed fedora2-test1 on my computer and everything (almost) works
> > > very well. However, I just cant seem to get eth2 to work. 
> > > 
> > > [root at as1-6-6 root]# ifup eth2
> > > forcedeth device eth2 does not seem to be present, delaying
> > > initialization.
> > > 
> > > [root at as1-6-6 root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth2
> > > # nVidia Corporation|nForce2 Ethernet Controller
> > > DEVICE=eth2
> > > ONBOOT=yes
> > > BOOTPROTO=none
> > > IPADDR=10.10.121.1
> > > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> > > TYPE=Ethernet
> > > USERCTL=no
> > > PEERDNS=no
> > > IPV6INIT=no
> > > 
> > > I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.1-1.65 to 2.6.4-1.298 hoping that this
> > > would help, but the results the same. 
> > > 
> > > I must admit that I'm quite confused on the mechanisms to get this
> > > working. If I look in:
> > > 
> > > [root at as1-6-6 root]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> > > include /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
> > > [...]
> > > alias eth2 forcedeth
> > > 
> > > and in:
> > > 
> > > [root at as1-6-6 root]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf.dist 
> > > # default modutils aliases
> > > alias binfmt-204 binfmt_aout
> > > [...]
> > > install eth0 /bin/true
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This was generated by the installation, and I have no idea whether it
> > > makes sense or not. 
> > > 
> > > I'm relatively new to Linux, and currently I havent got a clue on what
> > > to do next. Anyone else had any success with this combination, or have
> > > some hints on how to resolve the problem?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Kind regards
> > > /Lennart
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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