forcedeth driver eth0: no link during initialization
I am running Slack 10.2 (probably closer to current). My Mobo is an ASUS K8N-E. The nic reports as (according to dmesg)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1) the forcedeth driver loads (again, according to dmesg) forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.30. eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to 00:05.0 but at the end, dmesg reports: eth0: no link during initialization. Once, booted, it comes up (seems I have to wait a few seconds though, as when I enter the command immediately after login (as root) it just hangs) if I manually run the script /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 Since I can get it working, it is not a huge problem, and I suppose I could try to add the line to (re) run the rc.inet1 script into the rc.local, but I would much prefer figuring the "real" fix for this problem. Any help is greatly appreciated. |
Are you manually loading the forcedeth module in rc.module or is hotplug loading it? you could try adding
/sbin/modprobe forcedeth to rc.modules to make sure that the nic is ready when rc.inet1 starts |
No, I am not manually loading it. Strange enough just now when I got home and turned my machine on I did not have to manually run my rc.inet1 script for the link to come up. To be on the safe side though, I will go on ahead and put it in the rc.modules to see if that makes a (reliable) difference and let you know.
Thanks for the reply. |
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