nForce2 on-board lan + debian = tears

ninab · 08-14-2003, 12:07 PM

I cant get the integrated nic working. I installed woody using network-install-cd or whatever it is called. Compiled 2.4.21 kernel and downloaded the driver tar from nvidia's site and I'm pretty sure it installed fine (make, make install, no errors). Then ran "modprobe nvnet" and no errors. Added alias eth0 nvnet to modules.conf and added

Code:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

into /etc/network/interfaces and booted but no luck.
As the newbie I am, I have no idea what to do next. Here's some command output if it helps:

Code:

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01e0 (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01eb (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ee (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ed (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ec (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ef (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0060 (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0064 (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0067 (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0067 (rev a3)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0068 (rev a3)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0066 (rev a1)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 006b (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 006a (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 006c (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0065 (rev a2)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 006e (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01e8 (rev a2)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4e44
02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4e64

I take it those "Unknown device"'s aren't a good sign?

Code:

lspci -n
00:00.0 Class 0600: 10de:01e0 (rev a2)
00:00.1 Class 0500: 10de:01eb (rev a2)
00:00.2 Class 0500: 10de:01ee (rev a2)
00:00.3 Class 0500: 10de:01ed (rev a2)
00:00.4 Class 0500: 10de:01ec (rev a2)
00:00.5 Class 0500: 10de:01ef (rev a2)
00:01.0 Class 0601: 10de:0060 (rev a3)
00:01.1 Class 0c05: 10de:0064 (rev a2)
00:02.0 Class 0c03: 10de:0067 (rev a3)
00:02.1 Class 0c03: 10de:0067 (rev a3)
00:02.2 Class 0c03: 10de:0068 (rev a3)
00:04.0 Class 0200: 10de:0066 (rev a1)
00:05.0 Class 0401: 10de:006b (rev a2)
00:06.0 Class 0401: 10de:006a (rev a1)
00:08.0 Class 0604: 10de:006c (rev a3)
00:09.0 Class 0101: 10de:0065 (rev a2)
00:0d.0 Class 0c00: 10de:006e (rev a3)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: 10de:01e8 (rev a2)
02:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4e44
02:00.1 Class 0380: 1002:4e64

Code:

lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P  
nvnet                  26240   1  (autoclean)

Code:

ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:61:A5:33:7F  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:11

Code:

dmesg
Linux version 2.4.21 (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP 
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126960 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=305
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1670.478 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3335.78 BogoMIPS
Memory: 515740k/524224k available (1314k kernel code, 8096k reserved, 569k data, 96k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP stepping 00
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.49 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1670.4929 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 334.0985 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 3340985, slice: 1670492
CPU0<T0:3340976,T1:1670480,D:4,S:1670492,C:3340985>
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4f0, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus ff [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/01e0] at 00:00.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: unsupported bridge
agpgart: no supported devices found.
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 0
[drm:drm_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: IBM-DJNA-352030, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive
hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 80043264 sectors (40982 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4982/255/63
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
 hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 >
usb.c: registered new driver hub
host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 96k freed
Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:04.0 to 64

I also tried to run "dhclient eth0" but it doesn't give any erros/output.. nor help.

tarballedtux · 08-14-2003, 08:00 PM

Couple of questions: Did you find the nvidia drivers in your /lib/modules/`uname -r/ directory?

Have you tried this? ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 up

then type: "ifconfig" to see if it took an IP address.

--tarballedtux

ninab · 08-15-2003, 05:11 AM

Yes and yes. Looks like the nic is working after all as I was able to ping other machines in the lan. Duh. So it's about the dhcp then. I've put dns server ips in /etc/resolv.conf but don't really know what else to do as I thought running "dhclient eth0" should do the trick but it doesn't do anything. Is the syntax wrong or should I just get another client? If so which one? And shouldn't the auto eth0/iface eth0 inet dhcp -lines in /etc/network/interfaces do the same thing automatically?

Edit: forgot to mention, I did take a look at /etc/dhclient.conf but don't really have any idea what I should change..

tarballedtux · 08-15-2003, 02:08 PM