Hello I just installed slackware 10.1 today and upon a reboot after completition, realized the network does not work. When i type ifconfig, it does not give me any output for eth0, just for lo. It seems the installation did not install a driver for my network card, which is a "Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet" card, I have a dual boot system with Ubuntu and was able to obtain that information from typing in lspci in ubunut, when I type that in Slackware nothing comes out for Ethernet controller. Any help in getting the Yukon Gigabit ethernet card working in slack 10.1 will be appreciated. Also I installed the default 2.4 kernel during the installation of 10.1 if that helps...

it doesn't work with the same driver ubuntu is using?

i have not tried using the driver ubuntu is using, because not really sure where or how it is installed, it worked straight from the install for me in ubuntu, so Im not really sure how to use the drivers from that install....if you could provide some help in doing that...would appreciate it

boot into ubuntu and in a terminal:

lsmod &> drivers.txt


this will create a file called drivers.txt that will have all of the information on the drivers ubuntu is using, then you can edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules so they will load at boot time.

hmm i take that back...in slackware 10.1 i doublechecked and typed in "lspci" and it does list the correct ethernet card :

00:09:0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 12)

just when I type in ifconfig, it does not display anything for ETH0, just for LO (local loopback), and network does not work at all for me ....
kind of stumped....

are you using dhcp? you need to verify that the driver for that card is loaded (lsmod) and run dhcpcd ( if you configured it during the install, dhcpcd will run automatically at boot, if you did not configure your network at boot, (as root) type "pkgtool" in a terminal, to to setup->netconfig and configure it now).

I am not using dhcp, I use static ip...i booted into ubuntu, and did "lsmod &> drivers.txt" and looked at the text file, Im not sure which is the pertinent information for my nic card, so if you could let me know what on here I should note as being relevant to my nic card, will go into slackware and edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules per your instructions..thanks

Module Size Used by
proc_intf 4100 0
freq_table 4100 0
cpufreq_userspace 4572 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6172 0
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
ipt_limit 2688 7
iptable_mangle 2944 0
ipt_LOG 6656 7
ipt_MASQUERADE 3584 0
iptable_nat 24648 1 ipt_MASQUERADE
ipt_TOS 2560 0
ipt_REJECT 6528 0
ip_conntrack_irc 71856 0
ip_conntrack_ftp 72624 0
ipt_state 2048 4
ip_conntrack 43668 5 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ftp,ipt_state
iptable_filter 3840 1
ip_tables 17408 9 ipt_limit,iptable_mangle,ipt_LOG,ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_fil ter
r128 41984 1
drm 59412 2 r128
video 16260 0
sony_acpi 6280 0
pcc_acpi 11264 0
button 6800 0
battery 10244 0
container 4608 0
ac 4996 0
ipv6 229376 15
uhci_hcd 30224 0
usbcore 107384 2 uhci_hcd
i2c_viapro 7436 0
i2c_core 21264 1 i2c_viapro
via_ircc 24340 0
irda 168000 1 via_ircc
crc_ccitt 2176 1 irda
snd_cmipci 29472 2
snd_pcm_oss 47652 0
snd_mixer_oss 16768 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 84872 3 snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 9604 1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib 10112 1 snd_cmipci
snd_timer 23300 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 9220 1 snd_opl3_lib
gameport 4608 1 snd_cmipci
snd_mpu401_uart 7168 1 snd_cmipci
snd_rawmidi 22944 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8332 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 50276 13 snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ra wmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9824 1 snd
sk98lin 149216 0
pci_hotplug 30512 0
via_agp 9216 1
agpgart 31784 2 drm,via_agp
pcspkr 3816 0
rtc 12216 0
md 43728 0
evdev 9088 0
tsdev 7488 0
dm_mod 53116 1
capability 5000 0
commoncap 7808 1 capability
psmouse 19336 0
mousedev 11160 1
parport_pc 34372 0
lp 10792 0
parport 33480 2 parport_pc,lp
ide_cd 38532 0
cdrom 36508 1 ide_cd
ext3 120200 8
jbd 53912 1 ext3
ide_generic 1664 0
via82cxxx 12956 1
hpt366 18176 1
ide_disk 18176 16 hpt366
ide_core 118988 5 ide_cd,ide_generic,via82cxxx,hpt366,ide_disk
unix 26164 396
thermal 13576 0
processor 22708 1 thermal
fan 4612 0
fbcon 34048 0
crc32 4352 1 fbcon
font 8448 1 fbcon
bitblit 5120 1 fbcon
vesafb 6948 0
cfbcopyarea 3968 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3072 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3584 1 vesafb

it's the sk98lin module, do:

modprobe sk98lin

if you didn't set up networking during install you will have to do that now ( see above post ).

thanks that did the trick...you rock...mucho gracias....!

no problem, glad to help.

if the module doesn't load at boot, open up /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, skip down a little bit ( about 20 lines or so, you'll see some shell scripting at the top, just make sure you go below that) and add:

/sbin/modprobe sk98lin

and save the file, should be good to go after that.