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

[Bob Ramstad]

Let me amplify...  without knowing the gory details for certain, I was
thinking that respin2 would include forcedeth...  notes from them
indicate it is included in

Linux 2.4.26 (forcedeth 0.25)

Hence my confusion and expectation that respin2 wouldn't have any problems.

-- Bob

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:56:25 -0800, Bob Ramstad <rramstad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> So, could someone out there please save me hours of dinking around
> doing my own research?  I'm sure someone has been through this exact
> scenario, and any / all help would be very very much appreciated.
> 
> 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... and maybe download kernel-unsupported... and try installing
> both of those manually and seeing what happens.  Just a guess.
> 
> I'm in digest mode, so if you could please CC me directly as well as
> the list, that would really be swell.  Thanks again.
> 
> -- Bob
>