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

I think it has a forcedeth builtin NIC

... but you don't know?

init_module: No such device

suggests that it isn't a forcedeth card.

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

Originally Posted by Simon Bridge ... but you don't know?suggests that it isn't a forcedeth card. 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

When I've loaded Fedora 6 and puppy 2.15CE, they said it was forcedeth,
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.