nforce2 ethernet linux 2.6.7 problem

exad · 08-24-2005, 10:22 PM

Hello, I'm new here, I'm running linux slackware 10.0 for the first time after having been interested in linux for quite some time but I'm a big noob. So I have been trying to figure out how to get my nforce2 integrated ethernet card to work. I was originally running linux kernel 2.4 and installed 2.6.7 shortly afterwards.

this is what i get when I type /sbin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:04.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)
01:0b.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

If there's any other information you need let me know, if it will help me get this thing going I'll be glad to provide it

J.W. · 08-25-2005, 12:38 AM

Is the forcedeth module loaded? If not, have you attempted to load forcedeth manually? I'd suggest doing the following:

Code:

lsmod

The lsmod command lists the kernel modules that are already loaded. If you don't see forcedeth in the list, then try to manually load it

Code:

modprobe forcedeth

If you get an error that says no module found, then it may be that manually installing forcedeth could solve the problem. However, before doing that, it may be that you just don't have DHCP running, or that there's a really basic problem like the cable isn't plugged in. What is the output of

Code:

ifconfig

That will just display some basic data about your eth0 and/or eth1 network interface -- J.W.

Welcome to LQ!

exad · 08-25-2005, 01:06 AM

Thanks for the welcome and replying to my post

So I tried lsmod and then modprobe forcedeth. I didn't get any error message but it did not seem to correct the problem. The ethernet wire is conneced, my winxp partition is connected just fine. :/

This is what I got when I typed ifconfig

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4832 (4.7 Kb) TX bytes:4832 (4.7 Kb)

J.W. · 08-25-2005, 01:15 AM

Can you post the output from lsmod? Sorry I should have been clearer on that.

exad · 08-25-2005, 01:33 AM

Sorry about that :P I should've known. This is what I get for lsmod:

Module Size Used by
ipv6 212064 10
uhci_hcd 27920 0
nvidia_agp 5788 1
ohci_hcd 18436 0
ehci_hcd 27012 0
forcedeth 12032 0
pciehp 89836 0
shpchp 92140 0
ds 13572 0
yenta_socket 17536 0
pcmcia_core 52676 2 ds,yenta_socket
nls_utf8 1792 1
ntfs 113388 1
evdev 7168 0
agpgart 26920 1 nvidia_agp
psmouse 17544 0
ext3 106088 1
jbd 47256 1 ext3

Hope that helps :/

J.W. · 08-25-2005, 12:12 PM

OK - forcedeth is present, but neither eth0 or eth1 are appearing in ifconfig. Let's try the following

Code:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig

That will bounce the eth0 interface, then redisplay the results of ifconfig. What you're looking for is to see eth0 listed along with an IP address. Note that you may be using eth1, so if eth0 does nothing, try the same with eth1. If there's still nothing happening, then it may be that DHCP isn't running. You can manually restart it by

Code:

dhcpcd eth0

Run ifconfig again to see if you get an IP address, if not, try bouncing it again. Basically if your cables are connected correctly, and the kernel module is loaded, and the DHCP process is running, you should get an IP address. The above is pretty much my bag of tricks for getting a connection, so hopefully one of them will help. Good luck with it -- J.W.