dsl 3.3 not detecting forcedeth mother board nic
I have a gigabyte Athlon 64 board M51GM-S2G GeForce 6100
and I think it has a forcedeth builtin NIC. I've booted DSL 3.3 and DSL Panel Netcardconfig says no supported card was found. I tried sudo modprobe forcedeth after confirming that the driver exists via using modinfo forcedeth (It does exist), when I run sudo modprobe forcedeth the result is init_module: No such device Any ideas? This PC has run with Puppy Linux 2.13 and Fedora Core 6. I'll probably use it with FC7 for experimenting with hardware virtual stuff (KVM with kernel 2.6.20) but I want a fall back cd-r distro and usually use both Puppy and DSL. Mark |
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What is the output of lspci? What does the motherboard documentation say? Is it this board? In which case, the LAN controller is Marvell 88E1116 Gigabit LAN controller |
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The board is a M51GM-S2G GeForce 6100 the dmesg with Puppy 2.15 says: forcedeth using HIGHDMA eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01458:e000 bound to 0000:00:14.0 Mark |
The link was to specs for: M51GM-S2G GeForce 6100
But you restate that you have: M51GM-S2G GeForce 6100 Perhaps you can find a link to your board which shows your network card? There is another possibility, in that the forcedeth driver packaged with DSL3.3 does not support your forcedeth card. I am guessing the card works in puppy and fedora? I see from the dmesg output that the forcedeth driver is being bound to the card - so this would be a pretty good indication that this is a forcedeth compatible card all right. I am also guessing that the forcedeth driver used with DSL is the one that comes with DSL? So - what I would normally suggest is editing /etc/modprobe.conf and adding: alias eth0 forcedeth I tad trickier for a live distro. I think you should try DSL-n http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/ This uses the 2.6 kernel (like puppy and fedora) and there are reports of DSL-n working where DSL dosn't. |
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