Re: Asus K8N-VM Motherboard Ethernet Problem

From: Alistair John Strachan
Date: Sun May 28 2006 - 13:53:24 EST


On Sunday 28 May 2006 06:11, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Is there a problem with the forcedeth driver not being compatible with
> the Asus K8N-VM motherboard? I installed Fedora Core 5 and the Ethernet
> doesn't want to work. I installed the latest FC5 kernel which is some
> flavor og 2.6.16 and it still doesn't work. The FC4 CD and rescue disk
> don't work either. Windows XP however does work so I know that hardware
> is good.
>
> lspci says the hardware is an nVidia MCP51 ethernet controller. What am
> I missing?

A decent bug report. Please go to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ and publish your
lspci, /proc/interrupts and dmesg and if you're sure it's forcedeth, put the
maintainer on CC.

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Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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