Allright i know Linux is not supposed to be easy on newbies, but i gave it a shot last night. After countless hours of trying to get lilo to work, i finally found out i had the wrong partition set to bootable in cfdisk,lol. Anyways. I got KDE to work and it looks great. But the problem is i cannot get the internet to work no matter what i do. i have tried netconfig, and all the KDE apps i could find that came with it that had anything to do with the internet settings to no success. I think linux may not detect my network card. And i dont know how to set it up that it does. System Specs

AMD 3000+ 64 bit.
Asus A8N-SLI mobo - with onboard network card (Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller) according to my hardware manager in XP.
XP/Slackware 10.1

Also: I use a cable modem through a Linksys router. (No Proxy, No user/pass)

Thanks, for any and all help. My buddy has installed slackware and to no success either can he get the internet to work. Thanks again.

Similiar issues, check out this link.
http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/staff/Le...nux_p5gd1.html
http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect...ver/zip/linux/

Also check motherboard disc for linux drivers.

Brian1
Google the Linux way at ' http://www.google.com '

in the first link is advised to use the linux driver that's on the mobo cd.
that is if you use the standard ( 2.4.x) kernel.

you'll need the kernel-sources installed ( if you installed all=ok )
and read the instructions on how to build and install that driver.

egag

Thanks a ton, i didnt seem to think their would be linux drivers on the mobo disc, i am reading the htm file now in XP and it is as follows


Compile/use the driver as a module
----------------------------------
To compile the driver, go to the directory /usr/src/linux and
execute the command "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" and proceed as
follows:

To integrate the driver permanently into the kernel, proceed as follows:

1. Select the menu "Network device support" and then "Ethernet(1000Mbit)"
2. Mark "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx family support"
with (*)
3. Build a new kernel when the configuration of the above options is
finished.
4. Install the new kernel.
5. Reboot your system.

One question that makes me sound like a total newbie, how do i build a new kernel , and install the kernel, once i install this driver. Thanks.

it's not clear--->are there instructions to copy smth from the cd
and patch your kernel src. ?
...or is that all.....

if it's all, the driver comes standard as a module with Slackware.
but i don't know the name of it...

( might be sk98lin ? )
look at the output of the following :

#ifconfig ( shows interface currently up )
#lsmod (shows modules currently loaded )

maybe you can post the output of that...?

egag

As Requested.

root@MountainCable:~# ifconfig

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 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:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)



root@MountainCable:~# lsmod

Module Size Used by Not tainted

snd-pcm-oss 36704 0 (unused)

snd-mixer-oss 12152 0 [snd-pcm-oss]

usbkbd 2936 0 (unused)

keybdev 1892 0 (unused)

mousedev 4020 1

hid 20804 0 (unused)

usbmouse 1880 0 (unused)

input 3200 0 [usbkbd keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]

usb-storage 62336 0 (unused)

usb-ohci 19368 0 (unused)

ehci-hcd 17516 0 (unused)

usbcore 58860 1 [usbkbd hid usbmouse usb-storage usb-ohci ehci-hcd]

snd-intel8x0 18080 1

snd-ac97-codec 52472 0 [snd-intel8x0]

snd-pcm 54504 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec]

snd-timer 13412 0 [snd-pcm]

snd 31268 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]

soundcore 3396 4 [snd]

snd-page-alloc 4712 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd]

forcedeth 9868 0

ohci1394 23888 0 (unused)

ieee1394 41636 0 [ohci1394]

pcmcia_core 39172 0

ntfs 51232 2 (autoclean)

ide-scsi 9392 0

Seems i didnt set write permissions to my ntfs-c and ntfs-d disk drives which would be my 2 windows partitions so it wasnt all that easy to get this data to the OS has internet acess. Involved opening computer and puting in a temporary floppy drive lol. Thanks again. The mobo disk comes with a patch file but i have no idea how to use it or enable it in linux.

so.....that mobo-cd has a file to patch something ?
Then there must be some instructions on how to use it ?

a patch-file is made for one kernel ( ex: you connot use a patchfile made for a 2.4.26 kernel on a 2.4.29 )

all i could suggest would be guessing as the instructions you posted above
only say to recompile the kernel with the driver buid-in.

i got some instructions from asus.....
-------------
It is recommended to download the latest version of the driver from the
SysKonnect web site www.syskonnect.com. If you have downloaded the latest
driver, the Linux kernel has to be patched before the driver can be
installed. For details on how to patch a Linux kernel, refer to the
patch.txt file.
-------------

so...you'll need to get the patch for the kernel you are using.
( type "uname -r " to see your kernelversion ; prob. 2.4.29)

then the procedure would be :

-patch the kernel-sources ( there are instructions with the patchfile )
-copy the config-file ( cp /boot/config-ide-2.4.29 /usr/src/linux-2.4.29/.config )
don't miss the dot before config.
then run :
-make modules && make modules_install

also i think you need to blacklist the forcedeth module.
just add " forcedeth " on top of the /etc/hotplug/blacklist -file.

btw. with linux it's not ( yet ) possible to write on ntfs.....

egag

Maybe I did not read to well,
but did you try a modprobe sk98lin?

That seems to be the driver to support it.
It should then show up in that lsmod output.

Then you might have to a ifconfig eth0 up and dhcpcd eth0 as root,
assuming you have 1 card and it is on a dhcp server.

Hope that helps.