Realtek RTL8201CP NIC isn't getting detected by CentOS 5.x

tdog89 · 05-06-2009, 09:16 PM

Hello,
I have on board NIC RTL8201CP
GeForce 7050 / nForce 610i

I am unable to find any drivers for linux on any of these products. Does anyone have any idea how to get this to work? and/or have the download?

Thank you in advance.

rylan76 · 05-07-2009, 02:17 AM

First, the usual - are you sure the NIC is in working condition and it is not switched off in your BIOS?

If those are sorted, I'd first suggest going to the RealTek website and looking for a Linux driver specifically for your card - RealTek has some real good Linux support last time I checked.

Once you have the driver, you'll need to compile it against your kernel source code (you can get to that later, its not that hard...)

After you have compiled the new driver, you'll need to install it into your running kernel (not that hard either...)

Once THAT is done, you'll need to configure the driver so that your computer will have an IP address on your network, your gateway will be correctly setup, and your DNS will need to be configured.

Try and get hold of an applicable driver, and then post again in this thread once you have it - I'd be happy to assist. Success isn't guaranteed, but I have managed to do the above successfully, maybe I can spare you some frustration.

(Note that some drivers might be "unified" - i. e. your chipset might be one of several support by ONE driver - you'll not neccessarily find a specific, detached driver package for the ethernet chip you have)

tdog89 · 05-07-2009, 02:00 PM

Okay, I looked in my bios it works. I also ran Ubuntu "Live CD" and everything worked okay no problem. I am waiting on RealTek to contact me back. The Driver name that Ubuntu uses is nVidia Corporation MCP73 Ethernet is the one on my motherboard. I am unable to find this driver for linux.

tdog89 · 05-07-2009, 04:58 PM

Okay if i do lspci

I see the following and the ethernet card is located

Quote:

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 07c3 (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:03.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP73 SMBus (rev a1)
00:03.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP73 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:03.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP73 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100/nForce 630i (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP73 [nForce 630i] USB 2.0 Controller (EHCI) (rev a1)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP73 IDE (rev a1)
00:09.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP73 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 07f0 (rev a2)
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP73 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7050/nForce 610i (rev a2)
01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

The nVidia Corporation MCP73 Ethernet (rev a2) is my onboard ethernet card that I am trying to get to work. But I can not get it to detect it at all. Is there a way to manually added it?

rylan76 · 05-11-2009, 08:36 AM

Yep, that's where the kernel module comes in. After you've downloaded and installed the kernel module in your kernel, you usually need to manually get it working with a command like

Code:

/sbin/insmod my_lan_driver.ko ;(or /sbin/modprobe my_lan_driver.ko)
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.254.255.255 up

i. e. it won't happen automagically, you'll need to do a manual ifconfig.

Have you tried? I. e. try the above ifconfig like exactly like it is - what do you see? I once had this on an older Fedora system, i. e. the NIC driver was there and available, for some reason the distro's install function did not write this last line out to the system scripts so I had to add exactly the above line manually, and then everything started working... WITHOUT having to compile any modules or install anything.

farslayer · 05-11-2009, 09:38 AM

nevermind/..