nic driver help

ddavis1086 · 07-21-2011, 01:23 PM

I am a newbe and need some advice.

I have a old PC that I wanted to set up a Linux server on.
The motherboard is:

Asus P4C800 Deluxe

I installed Ubuntu server 10.4 LTS and got it running.

However, the ethernet contoller does not work. From searching the internet I gather that there is a driver package needed.

I do not know how to find what I need. I can download on another computer, burn to disk and install if I knew how.

I was hoping someone out there a lot smarter then me could help.

Here is some info:

lspci

(only typed in this line as I cannot copy and paste from Linux machine)

Ethernet controller: SysKonnect SK-9871 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-ZX Adapter, PCI64, Fiber ZX/SC (rev 10)

======

uname -r

2.6.38-8-generic

Any help would be much appreciated and thank you,

dennis

markush · 07-21-2011, 01:46 PM

Hello ddavis1086, welcome to LQ,

could you please execute the command

Code:

lspci -k | grep -iA5 ethernet

this will show you which kernelmodule you will need for the nic. Please post the output here.

BTW, I cannot believe that the nic is not recognized by Ubuntu, could you please post the output of

Code:

ifconfig

Markus

MensaWater · 07-21-2011, 01:49 PM

Are you sure it is 9871 and not 9821.

I quickly found the vendor's site and they have the 9821 listed with a driver. Often if you download a package from a site it will include documentation (at least a README) that will give you some detail.

http://www.syskonnect.eu/e_en/suppor...ystem=bs.Linux

(If the above isn't correct you can look for your model on their site.) You can determine your kernel version by running uname -r.

markush · 07-21-2011, 01:57 PM

Well, there are both 9871 and 9821 mentioned on the Asus downloadsite. But they seem to have only drivers for Windows. But there both cards have the same driver.

Markus

ddavis1086 · 07-21-2011, 01:59 PM

Thank you for the email.

lspci -k | grep -iA5 ethernet

02:05.0 Ethernet controller: SysKonnect SK-9871 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-ZX Adapter, PCI64, Fiber ZX/SC (rev10)
Subsystem: SysKonnect SK-9871 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-ZX Adapter, PCI64, Fiber ZX/SC
Kernel driver in use: skge
Kernal modules: skge

ifcongif

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:372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txquesuelen:0
RX bytes:28840 (28.8KB) TX bytes:28840 (28.8 KB)

ifconfig -a | grep eth
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00

Does this help out?

thx,

dennis

markush · 07-21-2011, 02:04 PM

This would mean that there is a module (driver) already present on your system. The module's name is skge.
Can you simply try to start your eth0-device? I'm not familiar with Ubuntu, so I don't know how to start the network with Ubuntu. Do you have DHCP enabled in your network?

Does the output of ifconfig really show the MAC-adress of eth0 as 00:00:00:00:00:00 ?
This could indeed mean that there's something missing.

Markus

markush · 07-21-2011, 02:07 PM

Here is what I found in the kernel-sources help about the skge module

Code:

CONFIG_SKGE:

This driver support the Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx
and related Gigabit Ethernet adapters. It is a new smaller driver
with better performance and more complete ethtool support.

It does not support the link failover and network management
features that "portable" vendor supplied sk98lin driver does.

This driver supports adapters based on the original Yukon chipset:
Marvell 88E8001, Belkin F5D5005, CNet GigaCard, DLink DGE-530T,
Linksys EG1032/EG1064, 3Com 3C940/3C940B, SysKonnect SK-9871/9872.

It does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset: a separate driver,
sky2, is provided for Yukon2-based adapters.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called skge. This is recommended.

Symbol: SKGE [=m]
Type : tristate
Prompt: New SysKonnect GigaEthernet support
Defined at drivers/net/Kconfig:2274
Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && NETDEV_1000 [=y] && PCI [=y]

Markus

ddavis1086 · 07-21-2011, 02:09 PM

My network is DHCP and the cable is plugged in.

I will see if I can find out how to start the eth0-device.

Yes it really does show address of 00:00:00:00:00:00

I know that it did work as this was a Windows XP machine until this morning and had an internet connection.

thx,

dennis

ddavis1086 · 07-21-2011, 02:11 PM

How would I "compile this driver as a module"? I don't know how to do that.

thx,

dennis

markush · 07-21-2011, 02:19 PM

You don't have to do that, the module is already loaded. I wonder why ifconfig doesn't show a proper MAC-adress.
Maybe you really try to install the driver from the site of MensaWater's post. You can download it, the extract it

Code:

tar xf install_v10.70.1.3.tar.bz2

and change into the directory, there's an install.sh script which you can execute with sudo.

It seems the kernelmodule skge is quite new and maybe it's not yet working properly with all devices.

Markus

ddavis1086 · 07-21-2011, 02:24 PM

Ok, I will give that a try and let you know how that goes.

thx,

dennis

ddavis1086 · 07-21-2011, 03:18 PM

Got that downloaded and un-tared.

Ran it like this:

sudo ./install.sh

I got a warning that says:

Check kernel header version (not recognized)

Then it says:

Compile the kernel (error)

I looked in the log and got this:

Compile the driver
=======================
make :Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

include/linux/mmzone.h:18:30: fatal error: generated/bounds.h No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Any ideas on this?

thx,

dennis

markush · 07-21-2011, 03:19 PM

Do you have the gcc-package installed and the kernel-sources?

Markus

ddavis1086 · 07-21-2011, 03:27 PM

Oh, before I got it to work I had this message. Maybe I should not have done the link.
Kernel header not found. Please install the linux header files development package or create a symbolic link from the /usr/src/KERNEL_VERSION directory to linux
Example: ln -s /usr/src/KERNEL_VERSION /usr/src/linux

I did that like so and then got the error in the previous post.

ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38.8 /usr/src/linux

dennis

ddavis1086 · 07-21-2011, 03:28 PM

How do I check to see if I have the gcc and kenel sources?

Sorry, still a newbe :-)