Hi everyone !

I have big problem with my hardware on Linux ( Actually I use Slackware 10.1, but I tried also MDK9.2 and RH9.0. All distributions have the same problem ).

I have motherboard Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 with integrated LAN ( I have also second Ethernet card on PCI, I tried both and problem was the same).

After installation Linux, at first time start system I have connected with network.
I get IP, NETMASK and DNS from DHCP.
When I started second time network doesn’t work.

When I tried :

dhcpcd eth0

then:
interface eth0 don’t go up

dmesg | grep –I eth0:

eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd09c7000, 00:0f:ea:35:08:f0, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1

and

mii-tool

SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Invalid argument
no MII interfaces found

when I use cat /proc/interrupts I don’t see IRQ for eth0

When I do for example:
Ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 up

Then eth0 go up and I see IRQ for eth0

I must get IP from DHCP, what can I do ??


Ps. Sorry for my English

For your chipset, you will need to use the latest kernel, which means the latest distro. VIA Apollo KT600 chipset.

Mandriva 10.2, Fedora Core 3, Suse 9.3- pick one.

As an addendum, VIA has just released their drivers open sourced.

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2

Does it means, that I can't use Slackware ??