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saravkrish 03-15-2004 09:46 PM

You can see from the config details below that I have a Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet card AND a built-in ethernet port in my motherboard (Asus A7V8X-X). I had tried installing Fedora Core 1 on the machine without the Linksys card. The networking didn't work then too :(.

My PC is attached to a Cisco uBR900 series router/cable modem. The router is connected to the cable directly in my home. The sad part is I had an older computer (its taken apart now) that had the LinkSys card (shown in the config) and was running RedHat 9 and all worked fine. I remember the LinkSys card giving a problem but as far as I can remember - it sorted out its problem by itself (yes it looks odd but I guess thats what happened!).

I opened the Hardware Browser (hwbrowse) and it detects both my network cards properly.

Even in the new PC that I'm reporting about, Windows XP is working fine!
:( I hate to use Windows XP and am having it just to play games and open Doc files (yeah, I know there is Openoffice, but sometimes the formatting changes). Please help me - its so frustrating! I bought this new PC and now I'm not able to use it!

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show us the dmesg report and what happens when you restart networking. have you tried ifconfig eth0 up?
Here is the dmesg output-

Code:

Linux version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl (bhcompile@bugs.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Wed Oct 29 15:31:21 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fffc000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc000 - 000000001ffff000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 131068
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126972 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS                                      ) @ 0x000f5f60
ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS  A7V8X-X  0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc000
ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS  A7V8X-X  0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc0b2
ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS  A7V8X-X  0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc030
ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS  A7V8X-X  0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc058
ACPI: DSDT (v001  ASUS A7V8X-X  0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/1 hdb=ide-scsi rhgb
ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2083.159 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 4154.98 BogoMIPS
Memory: 514332k/524272k available (1482k kernel code, 9552k reserved, 1110k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:    After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU:            Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2800+ stepping 00
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1990, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/3177] at 00:11.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:11.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa800-0xa807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa808-0xa80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: ST3200822A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW DRIVE SW-212B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue c0408880, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: Maxtor 32049H2, ATA DISK drive
hdd: Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-113 0110, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue c0408cdc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 390721968 sectors (200050 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
hdc: host protected area => 1
hdc: 40021632 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39704/16/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 >
 hdc: [PTBL] [2491/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 159k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:37:48 Oct 29 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:10.0
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.0, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.1, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.2, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.3, have irq 9, want irq 3
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb800, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:10.1
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.0, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.1, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.2, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.3, have irq 9, want irq 3
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb400, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:10.2
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.0, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.1, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.2, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.3, have irq 9, want irq 3
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb000, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:10.3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.0, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.1, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.2, have irq 9, want irq 3
IRQ routing conflict for 00:10.3, have irq 9, want irq 3
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: irq 9, pci mem e085f000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jun-19/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,9), internal journal
Adding Swap: 787144k swap-space (priority -1)
Adding Swap: 232932k swap-space (priority -2)
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,10), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,3), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdb: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: SAMSUNG  Model: CD-R/RW SW-212B  Rev: P000
  Type:  CD-ROM                            ANSI SCSI revision: 02
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:0b.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xe095e000, 00:03:6D:12:1C:5F, IRQ 3.
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19  July-12-2003  Written by Donald Becker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 00:12.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xa400, 00:0e:a6:57:32:50, IRQ 10.
eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 01e1 Link 0000.
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 292 bytes per conntrack
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:0b.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xe095b000, 00:03:6D:12:1C:5F, IRQ 3.
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19  July-12-2003  Written by Donald Becker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:12.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xa400, 00:0e:a6:57:32:50, IRQ 10.
eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 01e1 Link 0000.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 15:37:46 Oct 29 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0e.0
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 6 model 0x8027 found, IO at 0xd400-0xd41f, IRQ 10
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23)
Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3
PCI: Found IRQ 4 for device 00:11.5
IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.5, have irq 11, want irq 4
via82cxxx: Six channel audio available
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:11.5 to 64
via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97 codec (0xAA0000)
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS112 (Unknown)
via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xE000, IRQ 11
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

Also, here is /proc/pci -

Code:

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device  0, function  0:
    Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 128).
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xfbffffff].
  Bus  0, device  1, function  0:
    PCI bridge: PCI device 1106:b198 (VIA Technologies, Inc.) (rev 0).
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=8.
  Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 17).
      IRQ 3.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
      I/O at 0xd800 [0xd8ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed800000 [0xed8003ff].
  Bus  0, device  14, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 6).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20.
      I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f].
  Bus  0, device  14, function  1:
    Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 6).
      Master Capable.  Latency=32. 
      I/O at 0xd000 [0xd007].
  Bus  0, device  16, function  0:
    USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 128).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32. 
      I/O at 0xb800 [0xb81f].
  Bus  0, device  16, function  1:
    USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#2) (rev 128).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32. 
      I/O at 0xb400 [0xb41f].
  Bus  0, device  16, function  2:
    USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#3) (rev 128).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32. 
      I/O at 0xb000 [0xb01f].
  Bus  0, device  16, function  3:
    USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 130).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32. 
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed000000 [0xed0000ff].
  Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
    ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge (rev 0).
  Bus  0, device  17, function  1:
    IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 6).
      Master Capable.  Latency=32. 
      I/O at 0xa800 [0xa80f].
  Bus  0, device  17, function  5:
    Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 80).
      IRQ 11.
      I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff].
  Bus  0, device  18, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 116).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8.
      I/O at 0xa400 [0xa4ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec800000 [0xec8000ff].
  Bus  1, device  0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: PCI device 10de:0322 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 161).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee000000 [0xeeffffff].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0000000 [0xf7ffffff].

I also tried ifconfig eth0 up and then ran ifconfig to make sure that the card is working properly-

Code:

[root@localhost root]# ifconfig eth0 up
[root@localhost root]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:6D:12:1C:5F
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:446 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:21 errors:9 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:18
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:30300 (29.5 Kb)  TX bytes:7182 (7.0 Kb)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0xb000
 
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:A6:57:32:50
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1291 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:81808 (79.8 Kb)  TX bytes:2052 (2.0 Kb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xa400
 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8636 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8636 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:11770986 (11.2 Mb)  TX bytes:11770986 (11.2 Mb)

Incase this question is in your mind "Did u try a ifconfig eth0 down and then an ifconfig eth0 up?" - Yes I did try that out and the result was same as above.

Thank you,
Sarav.

freddybase 03-20-2004 04:59 AM

No Sound w/ A7V8X-X mobo w/ onboard sound
 
The A7V8X-X on board sound has always been a problem to get running, although once working it performs well. However, I still don't fully understand the hardware issues:

I successfully used the OSS drivers under Mandrake 9.2 but initially couldn't get any output. Googling showed that I needed to ignore the "Line output" icon (the yellow connector) on the chassis template and use the pink one. This worked ok, although at a reduced volume since the OSS driver wasn't 5.1 compatible and therefore only 2 out of 5 channels were audible. Audio was also available via the same pink connector under Windows.

However, now I have upgraded to Mandrake 10 (partly because I could never get ALSA working under the 2.4.18 kernel), things have changed. Initially, no sound. Went through the usual loops of checking the (2.6.3) modules file, checking mute ws off etc all to no avail.

Then fired up ALSAMixer and maxed out all the controls, still no sound.

Then I remebered the original connector swapping issue, plugged the cable into the middle (yellow) connector, and voila, full volume audio! One other key bit of information is that the ALSAMixer has a control slider for "VIA DXS" which was crucial to success. (It also has VIA DXS1, 2 & 3 but I don't know what they are for). AUMIX doesn't have control for this signal so its no use using it until you've set it up correctly underf ALSAMixer.

One thing that still stumps me though is that in order to get audio under windows, I have to reconnect the audio cable to the pink connector - weird.

HTH

Bob

saravkrish 03-20-2004 04:13 PM

I solved part of it.
 
Hi Bob,

My major problem was with the built-in network adapter. I have a SB Live! so I don't care about the built-in sound card. :) For fixing the problem with the network card - all I had to so was add a "noapic" option to the kernel parameters in /etc/grub.conf. If you do find out a neat fix to the sound card problem, do inform me, 2 soundcards are always better than 1 ;)
Thanks.

-Sarav


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