eth2 on A7N8X-E? (fedora2-test1)

[Jared Smith]

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

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 kudzu: numerical sysctl 1 49 is obsolete.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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