[WBEL-users] Install on AMD64, no network connectivity

[Seth Bardash]

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From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
[mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of Robert E.
Blair 
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 5:01 AM
To: whitebox-users@beau.org
Cc: seth@integratedsolutions.org
Subject: RE: [WBEL-users] Install on AMD64, no network
connectivity

I can speak with authority that a realtek 8169 does work in at
least one amd64 system with a 2.6 kernel.  I too had problems with
the release kernels mainly (I'm speculating) because you need to
disable acpi for them to work at all.  I might add that the 8169
gets 100Mbps performance unless you use the newer realtek drivers
(v2.2) from their website.

seth wrote:
I have just installed WHEL3 on an AMD64 3400+, and I am having a
dickens of a problem getting the network up and going...
SNIP...

Doug Eubanks

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Update: Clarified and SNIP'ed:

Doug Wrote back that the MB was a MSI K8N Neo, nforce3 250Gb.

I responded that he should check www.nvidia.com for the drivers.

He responded: I have built the driver and installed it without a
problem.....but it is still does not work....the interface is up,
but I can't do anything with it except ping it's local address...

It is using IRQ 22 and I have read some other posts that mention
IRQ problems above 22, and to disable the ACPI on the mainboard,
but this BIOS does not have that feature....

Doug

Next suggestions:

Check the hub you are using. The port is going to try to come up
running Gigabit speeds. You may need to play with the options for
the driver. Are you using a GigE hub? Or 100BT ?

To turn off acpi modify the /boot/grub/grub.conf entry for the
kernel and add: acpi=off

What does the boot message say for the LAN ??

Seth





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