From: Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>
To: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Asus K8N-VM Motherboard Ethernet Problem
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 08:19:32 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <447B7374.8040909@eyal.emu.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44793100.50707@perkel.com>
Marc Perkel wrote:
> Is there a problem with the forcedeth driver not being compatible with
> the Asus K8N-VM motherboard? I installed Fedora Core 5 and the Ethernet
> doesn't want to work. I installed the latest FC5 kernel which is some
> flavor og 2.6.16 and it still doesn't work. The FC4 CD and rescue disk
> don't work either. Windows XP however does work so I know that hardware
> is good.
>
> lspci says the hardware is an nVidia MCP51 ethernet controller. What am
> I missing?
I had similar issues on A8N-VM. The device would stop working after some
packets initially got through and would not recover.
As I recall 'noapic' made it work reliably. nvidia has a linux binary
driver for the chipset which you can try (you probably already use the
binary video driver?).
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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-28 5:11 Marc Perkel
2006-05-28 6:07 ` Marc Perkel
2006-05-28 10:18 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-29 17:48 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-05-29 17:54 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-29 22:03 ` [BUG 6480]Re: " Ingo Oeser
2006-05-31 21:35 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-07-08 10:30 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-05-28 17:54 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-28 18:20 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-29 14:14 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-05-29 16:46 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-29 17:26 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-05-29 22:19 ` Eyal Lebedinsky [this message]
2006-05-30 15:56 ` Mike Dresser
2006-05-30 16:03 ` Mike Dresser
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