gigabit ethernet with onboard nvidia NIC
I'm trying to enable gigabit networking on my slack 12.1 / 2.6.24 box. It has an nvidia NIC built into the motherboard which is supposed to support 1000baseT, but no luck so far.
Is anything obviously wrong & fixable in the info below? Or should I just go and buy a better NIC? :\ > dmesg | grep eth0 forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x20 @ 1, addr 00:21:85:64:10:8f > ethtool -i eth0 driver: forcedeth version: 0.61 firmware-version: bus-info: 0000:00:07.0 > ethtool eth0 Supported ports: [ MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: external Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Link detected: yes |
You might try using the official nvidia drivers for the motherboard via ndiswrapper, although you are probably better off getting a better NIC !
Have a troll through the HCL for known working cards first. |
I went for the third option - switch my server over to Arch linux. So far so good - ethtool says "eth0 Speed: 1000Mb/s" :)
Farewell Slack, old friend |
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