VIA Rhine-II

Xon · 11-03-2004, 10:16 PM

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
I have this ethernet card which is onboard and i saw that there are some incompatibilities problems with linux.I found 3 files that supposed to be drivers (*.c) but i didnt understand how i should compile and install em.

The output of the ifconfig looks that everything is fine
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:6E

4:42

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inet6 addr: fe80::20c:6eff:fed4:42da/64 Scope:Link

I tried to set up a home-network with another win98 b0x but DHCP server was crashing all the time.

Any suggestions?

Bruce Hill · 11-04-2004, 12:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Xon
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
I have this ethernet card which is onboard and i saw that there are some incompatibilities problems with linux.I found 3 files that supposed to be drivers (*.c) but i didnt understand how i should compile and install em.

The output of the ifconfig looks that everything is fine
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:6E:D4:42:DA
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:6eff:fed4:42da/64 Scope:Link

I tried to set up a home-network with another win98 b0x but DHCP server was crashing all the time.

Any suggestions?

I'm not clear what question you are asking, so I'll give you some information.

I have the same onboard nic on an Asus A7V600-X mobo. The "lspci" ouput is

Code:

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)

In Linux you have modules in the kernel which are your drivers. For this nic

Code:

#
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_MII=y
# CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL is not set
# CONFIG_SUNGEM is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set

#
# Tulip family network device support
#
# CONFIG_NET_TULIP is not set
# CONFIG_HP100 is not set
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCNET32 is not set
# CONFIG_AMD8111_ETH is not set
# CONFIG_ADAPTEC_STARFIRE is not set
# CONFIG_B44 is not set
# CONFIG_FORCEDETH is not set
# CONFIG_DGRS is not set
# CONFIG_EEPRO100 is not set
# CONFIG_E100 is not set
# CONFIG_FEALNX is not set
# CONFIG_NATSEMI is not set
# CONFIG_NE2K_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_8139CP is not set
# CONFIG_8139TOO is not set
# CONFIG_SIS900 is not set
# CONFIG_EPIC100 is not set
# CONFIG_SUNDANCE is not set
# CONFIG_TLAN is not set
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=y
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_MMIO=y

that is what needs to be set in your kernel.

The output of your ifconfig looks to me like networking isn't setup.
It should look something like this

Code:

mingdao@james:~$ su -c "ifconfig"
Password: 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:2F:31:9B:09  
          inet addr:192.168.1.31  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:19045 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:11045587 (10.5 Mb)  TX bytes:6861763 (6.5 Mb)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x1000 

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:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:100 (100.0 b)  TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)

mingdao@james:~$

It's almost impossible to tell you how to setup your network, since you
haven't told us what distribution you're using, how you connect to the
internet, etc. I can only say that if you're using Slackware Linux, issue
"netconfig" and answer the questions then issue "ifconfig eth0 down"
then "ifconfig eth0 up" and you should be set.

If you will read one or both of these links, it will help you to understand
what to include in your post so that we can give you some good advice:

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
How To Ask a Question

Also, when you post information with semi-colons and such, if you will
select Disable Smilies in This Post at the bottom of the Post Reply window,
them funny fellers will disappear. ;p

Xon · 11-04-2004, 05:05 PM

Hi there,
im running mandrake 10. You didnt tell me where these lines are? In which module or what? For changing em.

For my network i just wanna share files with this box and a win98. :|

Bruce Hill · 11-04-2004, 05:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Xon
Hi there,
im running mandrake 10. You didnt tell me where these lines are? In which module or what? For changing em.

For my network i just wanna share files with this box and a win98. :|

You didn't read those links I gave you, did you?

Mate, first, you're not posting enough information so someone can give
you some good help without asking you a bunch of questions!

Second, Mandrake has it's own way of doing things, which is not the Linux
way, and you'll have to learn Mandrake to get it done. I would suggest that
you read those links about how to ask a question, then post a whole new
thread in the Mandrake forum. Then, pray that either opjose or otish1000c
answer your thread - I've seen them help a lot of Mandrake users.

To share files over a network with Linux and Windoze we use samba.

"These lines" are in your kernel config file. On a properly setup Linux box
that would be at /usr/src/linux-2.4.26/.config where linux-2.4.26 is replaced
with your kernel.