A64, new mobo, and non-working ethernet

WMCoolmon · 11-15-2004, 12:19 AM

Very recently I switched to a new Athlon64 processor, and an MSI K8MM-ILSR motherboard. Ever since then, the only network device I can see is the loopback; eth0 doesn't seem to exist. According to Windows, the network chipset is a VIA Rhine II; is there any way I can get the network working again without reinstalling Yoper?

Also, is there anything I can do to make Linux take advantage of the 64-bit ability of the processor? (Say, recompile the kernel to be 64-bits - or would that mean every program would have to be 64 bits to work?)

Cliekid · 11-16-2004, 05:47 PM

64 Bit support in Yoper doesnt exist if I'm not mistaken.

It should be coming soon though :-)

As for your networking qualms...try running ifconfig and tell me what you see, I'll boot into Yoper (On Windows now, playing Half Life 2 =P), and see if I can give you further assistance.

Thanks!

WMCoolmon · 11-16-2004, 07:03 PM

I get this:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-10-DC-00-00-70-52-B2-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:7 dropped:7 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

So apparently there is an eth0 device, it just isn't working...

Edit: Also, my question about 64-bit was whether I should try and compile programs for 64-bit to gain a speed increase, especially the kernel. So if I just recompiled the kernel for 64-bit, and got Yoper to boot correctly

, would I still be able to use 32-bit programs? Would there be any speed increase?

I've yet to get a custom kernel working in Linux, although that's probably because I try to be minimalistic about them.

WMCoolmon · 11-21-2004, 05:31 AM

Are there any suggestions?

WMCoolmon · 11-27-2004, 07:04 PM

Well, I finally got this fixed...turned out my firewire card was being detected as eth0 - I just added a couple lines to teh network startup script to run dhclient for eth1, as well as adding it to /etc/modprobe.conf