[WBEL-users] ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe nForce2 networking

[William Hooper]

Bob Ramstad said:
> Hi there.  Relatively long time user of WBEL3 here.
>
>
> I'm in the process of upgrading the hardware on a number of servers
> here and since we're going from Intel on the old servers to AMD on the new
> servers I decided to install from scratch using respin2.
>
> Interestingly with respin2 the installer detects SATA drives just
> fine, but the bizarre thing is that it doesn't detect any networking
> components whatsoever.  It just skips the networking questions completely.
>
>
> Once the system is up and running, I'm at a loss.  Of course I can log
> in at the console, but there's no network access.  I've tried running
> redhat-network-config (the low tech text as graphics version) but after
> answering the questions nothing seems to happen.  eth0 doesn't even show
> up when doing an ifconfig.
>
> The board has two Ethernet ports, one is a Marvell Gigabit port and
> the other is an nVidia port.  I don't care which one works, I don't need
> both of them working, but I was a bit surprised to see that drivers for
> neither one made it into respin2.
[snip]

> Left to my own devices, I'd probably download an RPM for a newer RHEL3
> kernel as my understanding is that the latest and greatest isn't on
> respin2...

The latest and greatest in in the updates dir, though.

> and maybe download kernel-unsupported...

IIRC the Marvell requires the sk98lin module that is part of
kernel-unsupported.  The nVidia part (like most of their hardware)
probably requires drivers from nVidia.

-- 
William Hooper