On June 29, 2005 09:58, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 16:08, Jamie Amundson wrote: > > After installing Mandrake 9.1 the on board network card is not > > recognized. If I disable/enable the network card in the BIOS, when > > booting the system recognizes missing/new hardware, but when running the > > configuration it does not find any devices. Is there a way to manually > > create the devices or force the system to see it? > > > > > > James > > Mandrake will recognise most network cards automatically. Very often when > it fails to recognise a network card it is due either to an interrupt > problem or an issue with the BIOS > > Try booting with some features disabled :- > Boot and at the Lilo screen enter ESC. You will be taken to a text prompt. > Enter > linux noapic noacpi nolapic > It will then continue booting. > > If your network card then works try again with only two of the features > disabled and so on until you find which one is the problem. We can then > show you how to make it boot that way by default. > > If that does not help then it may be an Interrupt issue. > In your BIOS set "PlugNPlayOS=no" if you have that parameter, and disable > any on board devices you are not using. If your BIOS allows you to select > an interrupt line for any of your devices try changing the lines selected. > Finally with some motherboards moving PCI cards to different slots will > cause interrupt lines to be allocated differently. > > Other things you may find helpful :-= > In a terminal enter 'dmesg' to see the boot messages. You should see > messages about the on board network device being discovered. > In a terminal enter 'lspci' for a list of all the devices on the PCI bus > Your Ethernet should be listed. > > HTH > > derek
Another thing to try is to add the following line to your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no Even without the double negative, I have no idea what this does, but it's necessary for certain ethernet cards. I need it for my on-board ethernet under Mdk 10.1 (and when I was searching for the solution, I saw references to older versions of Mdk also needing this). I have a Via VT6102 [Rhine II 10/100] built in to a Soyo SY-KT600 DRAGON Plus v.2.0 motherboard. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green
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