Pete, what did You do to get the nVidia GigEthernet up and running?
I have compiled the forcedeth.ko hard into the kernel and the interface shows up as eth0. But when I plug in the CAT5 cable to my router switchport nothing happens (no blinking LED's, nothing). With XP the interface works perfectly. Regards, Stefan Am Dienstag, 24. Januar 2006 14:22 schrieb Pete Pardoe: > Stephan > > I am running and have been running for 4 months, the exact configuration > you describe except I have only one drive (SATA 2 250G) and therefore no > RAID but have not had a problem. I intend to add a second drive as > finances permit and will attempt to set up RAID at that point. > > Pete > > On 1/24/06, Stefan Trenker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hai Darren, > > > > I am running an x939 Athlon 64X2 3800+ with an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Board, > > newest BIOS flashed (1016). > > I am running a dual boot WinXP + Gentoo on am RAID 1 (so I need the BIOS > > RAID) > > > > My findings are as follows: > > - 1. the HD's (2x250GB Samsung SATA-II) were plugged into the nVidia SATA > > controller (big mistake) > > > > -> there is a typo on the boot menu of the 2005.1-r1 LiveCD: in order to > > get > > the BIOS RAID on-line i have to utilize the dmraid tool. The LiveCD > > therefore > > recomments the boot string "gentoo dmraid" which does nothing since the > > correct boot string would be > > > > "gentoo dodmraid" > > > > -> during the stage 1 bootstrap i had several kernel Oops. It stopped > > when I > > used the boot string > > > > "gentoo dodmraid maxcpus=1" > > > > Since i liked to utilize both CPU kernels on the final system I unscrewed > > the > > box, replugged my disks to the 2nd (now SATA-II, Sil 3114) controler, > > reformatted the disks and newly formatted, partitioned, and installed > > windows > > XP > > > > (1. partition 500MB for Boot (i need it because the BIOS can not access > > partitions 20 Gig behind the beginning), 2. partition 20Gig XP, 3rd > > Partiton > > 10Gig VFAT, 4th partition 3Gig swap, 5th partition rest for Gentoo) > > > > -> LiveCD still utilices the sata_nv driver since the very first install > > of > > the HD's brought a nVidia signature to the HD's which are recognized by > > the > > dmraid tool, and which are not overwritten by the reformat utilizing the > > Sil > > 3114 controller (really weird). > > > > For the Istallation I still had to utilize "maxcpus=1". > > > > My System now runs fine with both CPU kernels but I still have a system > > freeze > > once a week allways after heavy disk utilization. > > > > --- > > > > And I still have an issue with the nVidia GigEthernet interface. The > > Marvel > > works fine. > > > > Hope this helps a bit. > > > > Cheers, > > Stefan > > > > Am Montag, 23. Januar 2006 22:30 schrieb Darren Grant: > > > I'm currently looking to build a cost effective web/email server. > > > > > > I'm considering using an ASUS A8N-E with an x939 Athlon 64 x2 3800+ > > > 2Ghz processor. I'm also hoping to use RAID-1 over dual SATA2 drives. > > > In researching gentoo and SATA2, I've come across numerous problems > > > that people are experiencing with the 2005.1-r1live-cd install and the > > > sata_nv driver and SATA in general. Has this been fixed? Does anyone > > > have any advice for me? Has anyone successfully installed on SATA2 > > > drives running with an nforce4 chipset mobo? If they haven't, were they > > > able to get SATA2 drives running as SATA1? Or at least SATA1 from a > > > fresh install of the 2005.1-r1 AMD64 livecd? I noticed a lot of > > > problems with the ASUS A8N-VM/CSM which is why I'm investigatin the > > > A8NE. > > > > > > If this has already been discussed, I apologize in advance... I'm new > > > to the list and couldn't find what I was looking for in the archives. > > > > > > Any help or advice would be appreciated. > > > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > > -- > Pete Pardoe -- [email protected] mailing list
