I made a mistake. I had redhat on another computer and it recognized
its ethernet card automatically. This one is built into the
motherboard. I downloaded the rpm from nvidia for the network adapter
and it is supposed to work after you reboot. Now I get this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ammonc]# cat /proc/pci | grep eth -i
Ethernet controller: PCI device 10de:0066 (nVidia Corporation) (rev
161).
This output is from Mandrake Control Center:
Ethernetcard:
nForce2 MCP Networking Adapter
Information:
Vendor: ?Nvidia Corporation
Bus: ?PCI
Bus identification: ?10de:66:1019:1b31
Location on the bus: ?0:4:0
Description: ?nForce2 MCP Networking Adapter
Module: ?nvnet
Media class: ?NETWORK_ETHERNET
I don't know what else to do.
I don't know how to access the ethernet card. I wonder if I need to
symlink to nvnet (the module name from above) or something.
It sees it on the bus, but it isn't getting further than that. Also, I
noticed as it is booting up and seeing what is ok. It says no network
to start or something to that effect.
Thanks for your ideas and continued help!
Ammon
Bryan Murdock wrote:
For some reason I couldn't send this response directly to you[1], so I'm
just sending to the list. I hope nobody minds:
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 02:12, Ammon Christiansen wrote:
I have attached the output from ifconfig and dmesg. dmesg grepped for
eth0 returned nothing, so I included it without it being filtered.
Right, so your ethernet card appears to not even exist :) This is odd
seeing as how you said it worked fine under Redhat, didn't you? I've
never had Mandrake not detect an ethernet card like this, so I'm not
sure how much help I can be. I'll tell you what I might try and do if
this did happen to me and you can see what you think.
First, I would try the mandrake control center (drakconf), click
hardware, harddrake, and see if there is an ethernet card listed there
at all (the quick command line way is to do 'cat /proc/pci' assuming
your network card is a pci one, which it most likely is). If it's
listed then in harddrake you can highlight it and then on the right try
clicking on "run config tool" and see what happens. I doubt this will
work, if Mandrake couldn't set it up during install then it usually
can't do it here either.
Once you see in harddrake (or from 'cat /proc/pci') the exact name that
Linux thinks your ethernet card has you can search on google to see what
others experiences have been with this card and Mandrake 9.1. Search
for something like "DECchip 21041 mandrake 9.1" (put whatever your
ethernet card is named instead of the DECchip stuff). Good luck.
Of course the other thing you could try is just doing the Mandrake
install again. I've found that this is usually the quickest solution,
as installing Mandrake doesn't take very long. You don't learn
anything, but if you just want to get stuff working...
Bryan
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