3C940/3C2000 on Asus P4C800

Originally posted by spagnitz I read this thread smartass, do you think I should feel happy that I have to look everywhere to find that the the supplied Linux drivers are nonfunctional and I need to emulate another lan adaptor? Do you think I should feel happy that I was poorly treated by asus tech support while attempting to resolve this problem? Thanks for your meaningfull response (or troll not sure what to call it)..

Call it trolling, call it meaningless, but what exactly was your intention with your previous post? Do you want to get the NIC to work? You just bounce in here and declare that the ASUS team sucks, the mobo is expensive and the NIC doesn't work. Sounds like trolling to me. Anyway, it would be more usefull to post at least what the problems are with this NIC. Especially since other people seem to get it to work too. In my case it was easy, once I found the right module[1].

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B10m

[1] http://www.syskonnect.de/

Originally posted by b10m I went to www.syskonnect.de and downloaded the small package http://www.syskonnect.de/syskonnect/...lin_inst_p.htm. This one is supposed to work for kernels 2.4.13 and up. And in my case, it did. Unpacked it and just ran the installer et voila! No problems anymore.Thanks guys!

Been there.
Done that.
Buying the T-Shirt now...

Using SuSE8.2 which is a 2.0.20-64GB-SMP Kernel and an Asus P4C800Deluxe.

At last it Wirx

Now I can Google to my heart's content

Hi, I was reading though the thread, some of you found a solution for the problem, but I was wondering if someone would be ncie enough and give me the steps they took and things needed to fix the problem with the nic.

I have Asus P4C800 and running SuSe 8.2 Professional - fresh install, well setup the ATI 9800 PRO video card, but other than that, its all new. I had RH9 before but I wanted to try SuSe, I'm trying to get the Lan to work, but I don't really want to screw up things too badly so I'm asking.

Thanks a lot.

Originally posted by mozes Guys, it's very easy to build a standalone driver from the patch provided on www.syskonnect.de (you'll need the sk98lin_2.4.21_patch.gz). It works perfectly with RH 9, opens google and everything else. Download linux 2.4.21 from kernel.org, apply the patch, then copy drivers/net/sk98lin dir somewhere -- you'll be compiling the driver there and you don't need the kernel sources anymore, so you can remove it. Then dowload my Makefile from http://www.boylesoftware.com/~lev/Makefile and put it to the sk98lin dir, then do make, put the sk98lin.o to /lib/modules/.../drivers/net/sk98lin (it replaces the one, which is already there) and add "alias eth0 sk98lin" to your modules.conf.

Can you tell me how I can run the patch? I downloaded the sk98lin_2.4.21_patch from the syskonnect website but I seem to get the following error when I run it. I'm running mandrake 9.1.

diff: linux/Documentation/Configure.help: No such file or directory
diff: linuxn/Documentation/Configure.help: No such file or directory
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 2: ---: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 3: +++: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 4: @@: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 6: The: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 8: -SysKonnect: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 9: +Marvell: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 10: CONFIG_SK98LIN: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 11: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 12: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 13: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 14: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 15: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 16: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 17: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 18: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 19: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 20: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 21: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 22: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 23: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 24: -: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 25: +: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 26: +: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 27: +: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 28: +: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 29: +: command not found
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 30: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./sk98lin_2.4.21_patch: line 30: `+ - SK-9821 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-T)'

Am I running this patch correctly or is there something that I don't know? I'd appreciate anyones help on this as I've been struggling with trying to fix this.

Thanks in advance.
Millo

Originally posted by millo Can you tell me how I can run the patch? I downloaded the sk98lin_2.4.21_patch from the syskonnect website but I seem to get the following error when I run it. I'm running mandrake 9.1. diff: linux/Documentation/Configure.help: No such file or directory diff: linuxn/Documentation/Configure.help: No such file or directory [snip] Am I running this patch correctly or is there something that I don't know? I'd appreciate anyones help on this as I've been struggling with trying to fix this. :scratch

It's a patch, not an install file. So copy it to /usr/src/ and from that dir:
# patch -p0 < sk98lin_2.4.21_patch

That should do the trick. Hope it works.

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B10m

Thanks b10m

unfortunately i get loads of Hunk's FAILED, most of what is uutput looks something like the following:

patching file linux/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 27.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 76.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 88.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 101.
Hunk #6 FAILED at 144.
Hunk #7 FAILED at 187.
Hunk #8 FAILED at 201.
Hunk #9 FAILED at 286.
Hunk #10 FAILED at 434.
Hunk #11 FAILED at 528.
Hunk #12 FAILED at 538.
Hunk #13 FAILED at 715.
13 out of 13 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file linux/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt.rej

maybe I should just install a proper network card

I also have the 3c940 on my ASUS P4P800 running RH 9. I followed the driver installation provided with the CD that came with the motherboard. Checking the /var/log/messages file, my ethernet card sent out a few DHCPDISCOVER packets but no DHCPOFFERS received.

Does that mean I have installed the drivers correctly but there's something wrong with the DHCP server? Or is there still something wrong with my driver installation? I'm actually running a dualboot of winXP and RH 9, and DHCP seems to be running fine when i use winXP, but still can't get it to work in RH 9.

Sorry, first day on linux and very frustrated =)

I also have 3c2000 ethernet on Asus P4P800 Deluxe. I used driver supplied in Asus CD, all the other drivers I used refused to work (my own fault, I know)

I type "make" in /3c2000 dir, then "depmod -a" and "insmod 3c2000" Dunno if that was the right thing to do, but did it anyway

Then I added "alias eth0 3c2000" to /etc/modules.conf.

I rebooted, as former windoz user does that by default

After everything have worked smoothly

Thank you for all your help! I got my internet to work with this chip under Mandrake, however I had some strange problems with Slackware. You see, as soon as I would receive a few packets I would get a kernel panic. Tried recompiling the kernel with different options, with no luck... but now, at least I have some sort of linux running (temporarily until the problem is finally fixed). However, I was wondering: is there a way to transfer my net settings/kernel/modules/drivers/whathaveyou from Mandrake to Slackware and not have to deal with reconfiguring everything? Possibly without deleting my current Mandrake setup (as this took me 3 days to set up)? Thank you for all the support so far.

Cap

I have an Asus A7V600 which also has the onboard gigabit lan, drivers for it were available for download from www.asus.com and they'll probably work for you too. I think I just did a:


Make
Make install
Make clean

and then I went into /etc/modules.conf and added an:
alias eth0 3c2000

Then I went into the network device control from the RedHat menu under system tools, and the device should appear in there now as eth0 3c2000 and you should just able to activate it that way. (RedHat 9.0)

Originally posted by jhaprins I just found out that there is a newer version of this driver, version 044, on the asus site. Have not tested this one yet, but don't have that many problems either. Maybe you could test this version and see if it fixes the problems you have. Then there is a patch for the in kernel version of sk98 driver that should support the 3C940 adapter: http://www.syskonnect.de/syskonnect/....4.20_patch.gz http://www.syskonnect.de/syskonnect/....4.21_patch.gz

U got it right jhaprins. Thanks to you btw.

I downloaded the driver from the link above. Installed it. On the beginning of your /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (im using redhat), put right below after the #/bin/sh word, this line:

/sbin/modprobe sk98lin

then reboot....

...viola.... it works for me now.... thanks!

Originally posted by tocodilon U got it right jhaprins. Thanks to you btw. I downloaded the driver from the link above. Installed it. On the beginning of your /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (im using redhat), put right below after the #/bin/sh word, this line: /sbin/modprobe sk98lin then reboot....

First of all, the reboot wasn't necessary, a simple `modprobe sk98lin` would be enough. Secondly, I'm pretty sure RedHat uses the /etc/modules file too during boot. So, it'd be nicer if you added "sk98lin" to that file instead of using the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script. This way, you keep everything organized :-)

$ man modules
NAME
/etc/modules - kernel modules to load at boot time

DESCRIPTION
The /etc/modules file contains the names of kernel modules
that are to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Argu_
ments can be given in the same line as the module name.
Comments begin with a `#', and everything on the line
after them are ignored.

Originally posted by phinaliumz I also have 3c2000 ethernet on Asus P4P800 Deluxe. I used driver supplied in Asus CD, all the other drivers I used refused to work (my own fault, I know) I type "make" in /3c2000 dir, then "depmod -a" and "insmod 3c2000" Dunno if that was the right thing to do, but did it anyway Then I added "alias eth0 3c2000" to /etc/modules.conf. I rebooted, as former windoz user does that by default After everything have worked smoothly

Hallo to all... I have the same configuration of phinaliumz (Mandrake 9.1 i.e. 2.4.21 kernel) and at the moment I downloaded the -046 driver from asus, because the sk98lin_2.4.21_patch.gz file is no longer available.

Do you know if such driver works? Otherwise, can someone post to me the sk98lin_2.4.21_patch.gz?

I experienced some problem with samba too, trying to connect my Linux PC with a Win98 PC with 10/100 Ethernet. Are experienced if such problem is related to the 3c2000 driver?

Thanks to all

Giuseppe

Originally posted by mozes Then dowload my Makefile from http://www.boylesoftware.com/~lev/Makefile and put it to the sk98lin dir, then do make, put the sk98lin.o to /lib/modules/.../drivers/net/sk98lin (it replaces the one, which is already there) and add "alias eth0 sk98lin" to your modules.conf.

Unfortunately such link is out of date too :-(
Can someone send me the file?

Thanks a lot

Giuseppe

Hello,

Recently I reinstalled my system because of some other problems and I used the Asus driver for my NIC. Everything works fine until my neighbour that shares the internet connection with me tells me he can't connect to my server. I check his workstation, everything looks fine, he can connect to a lot of other resources in the LAN. Then I thought about this threath again and replaced the driver with the SK98LIN driver and now he can connect again.

Really strange.

J.H. Prins