Marvell Yukon for Scientific Linux 6.1
I used to run CentOS 5, my network did not work right away when i installed that operationg system, so what i had to do is just download kmod-sk98lin package for RHEL5, install it, then enter manuall my network MAC address in the network settings, and it worked perfectly.
Now i installed SL6.1, for that i downloaded RHEL6 version of kmod-ak98lin package, installed it, entered again manually MAC address of my network card in network connection preferences, but...it did not work. That is really strange. what could be the reason? any suggestions? To give you more information, here is output of ifconfig -a command: Code:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 20:CF:20:2B:02:32 First i tried with this package: kmod-sk98lin-10.85.9.3-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm It did not work, then i found a newer package: kmod-sk98lin-10.88.3.3-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm Did not work as well, aybe i need some different package or some other step to perform? Any ideas appreciated. thanks. |
it is in the el repo
so i am guessing that Code:
su - and any dependencies ( there should not be for an up to date sl6.X ) Code:
yum info kmod-sk98lin.x86_64 -- online page-- http://linux.die.net/man/4/sk98lin you might need to rerun modprobe or reboot |
well yes i even tried modprobe after that, and reboot too. nothing helped.
so i downloaded that RPM in another OS, and copied to my SL6.1 machine, this one: kmod-sk98lin-10.88.3.3-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm nothing worked out. Any other ideas? |
and you have ran "system-config-network"
and in services you are using "networkmanager" and no the older "network" |
well messing around with those settings did not bring any result as well.
I even tried to create the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file with appropriate settings as suggested by someone, because i did not have that file. but that did not help too! So the interesting thing is ifconfig -a does give me eth0, but for some reason that eth0 is not being picked up? so looks like my driver installed OK, but for some reason system cannot use it? or what else could that be? |
Just in case here are my outputs for the following commands, it might give some more info:
output of lspci | grep -i eth Code:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller with AVB] (rev 11) Code:
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\] (Node ffffffff81f08530), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS |
Ok i also tried to do the following: i downloaded driver installation pakcage from Marvell.com, i downloaded kernel source, and started the driver installation script which recompiled kernel and installed appropriate driver after removing a driver which was already installed, here is an output after running install.sh for sk98lin driver:
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Disconnect alternative devices: (done) [ OK ] I reboot..and nothing works again. So what could be the problem? |
John, after this successful driver installation i again ran system-config-network as you said, then reboot and then it worked at last. thank you.
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Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059 - Sony Vaio LAN Card Driver Installation
I am a newbie in Linux.
This post is to contribute back to http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-6-1-a-918437/ thread which helped me immensely in installing LAN card Driver for Scientific Linux 6.3 on Sony Vaio VPCEB46FG. Note: a) I had installed SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Everything-DVD1.iso and SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Everything-DVD2.iso from http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linu....3/x86_64/iso/ b) I had unplugged LAN wire during installation c) Wireless LAN was also switched off. d) I am operating from GUI. Following are the steps I took: 1) lspci | grep -i eth >> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller with AVB] (rev 11) 2) Download "linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2" from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ in /usr/src 3) extract it via right click "Extract Here". It should give linux-2.6.32 4) On Terminal run: ln -s linux-2.6.32 linux 5) Download "kmod-sk98lin-10.92.1.3-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm" from http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/ 6) Then double click for installation. 7) Download "Kernel 2.6.x Linux Driver Install Package for Yukon Devices" (install_v10.92.1.3.tar.bz2) via http://www.marvell.com/support/downl...vWn!-138244645 8) Extract it, then get into folder (DriverInstall) via Terminal. Execute: chmod +x install.sh 9) Execute: ./install.sh 10) Driver Installed successfully. I finally plugged in LAN cable and was henceforth able to connect to internet. |
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