asus a7n8x and redhat 9

tommy_haaland · 09-21-2003, 02:23 PM

I don't get my network card (which is integrated on the motherboard) to work. Do I need to download some drivers, or do I just have some configuration to do?

tommy_haaland · 09-21-2003, 03:50 PM

system settinga -> network:
devices: eth0 invactive
hardware: 3com 3c501
DNS:
HOSTS: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
IRQ: unknown

tommy_haaland · 09-21-2003, 06:01 PM

anyone know if it is possible to make my onboard network card to work in RH? I have also downloaded the drivers, and disables APIC in bios.
If it is not possible to make it work, I'll by a new network card.

adz · 09-21-2003, 09:57 PM

Could you show me the output of lspci and lsmod as root? See if there's a line in lsmod's output that says 3c501? If not try typing modprobe 3c501 and see if you get any errors.

tommy_haaland · 09-22-2003, 05:46 AM

when I typed lspci I got
-ethernet controller: nvidia corporation nforce2 ethernet controller (rev a1)
several lines of
-ram memory: nvidia corporation unknown devices

When I typed lsmod I got no lines with 3c501

when i typed modeprobe 3c501 I got
-input/output error. Hint: can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including IO og IRQ. 3c501 failed.

When I go to system setting -> network, my card doesn't got any IO og IRQ. hmmm

adz · 09-22-2003, 07:40 AM

Nvidia, eh? Well... sorry to tell you this but it seems it's unsupported. Your one hope is to check out the nvidia site (maybe they've come up with something recently) or try every module in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/ and subdirectories. In other words apply the modprobe command to all modules and see if one loads. A quick way to do this would be to type modprobe -t drivers/net or if that doesn't work, modprobe -at drivers/net. Good luck.

rberry88 · 09-22-2003, 11:47 AM

I have the A7N8X Deluxe mobo and couldn't get it to work, even Asus support says they haven't heard of it working in Linux. I went and bought a Netgear FA311 pci card for $20 USD and it solved all my problems.

rberry88

tommy_haaland · 09-22-2003, 03:18 PM

I disabled the integrated lan-card, and bought a cheap belkin-card. Everything works just fine now.