Hello,
I'm trying to install CentOS 5.2 on an HP 6730s notebook.
All's going well except for one little item -- the networking. Never thought I'd have trouble with an Ethernet adapter, so I didn't even check before buying this machine; it was cheap.
The adapter is a Marvell Yukon 88E8042 PCI-E Fast Ethernet controller. I can't find a Linux driver for it except one that appears to require me to recompile a custom kernel. I find it on the Marvell website:
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do
It looks like I'll have to recompile the kernel to get this installed. Having read the warnings on the CentOS Wiki, I figured I should ask before building my own kernel for the first time.
Do I have other options?
Thanks!
Kurt Hansen khansen@charityweb.net
This is handled by the sky driver I believe although support for it was removed recently.
Kurt Hansen wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to install CentOS 5.2 on an HP 6730s notebook.
All's going well except for one little item -- the networking. Never thought I'd have trouble with an Ethernet adapter, so I didn't even check before buying this machine; it was cheap.
The adapter is a Marvell Yukon 88E8042 PCI-E Fast Ethernet controller. I can't find a Linux driver for it except one that appears to require me to recompile a custom kernel. I find it on the Marvell website:
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do
It looks like I'll have to recompile the kernel to get this installed. Having read the warnings on the CentOS Wiki, I figured I should ask before building my own kernel for the first time.
Do I have other options?
Thanks!
Kurt Hansen khansen@charityweb.net _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I can't find a Linux driver for it except one that appears to require me to recompile a custom kernel. I find it on the Marvell website:
No, you make a module with that downlaod. I also have the unfortunate luck to have a few systems with various Marvell nics and they aren't as good as Intel IMHO.
It's pretty simple, check the readme out.
jlc
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Joseph L. Casale JCasale@activenetwerx.com wrote:
I can't find a Linux driver for it except one that appears to require me to recompile a custom kernel. I find it on the Marvell website:
No, you make a module with that downlaod. I also have the unfortunate luck to have a few systems with various Marvell nics and they aren't as good as Intel IMHO.
If the 88E8042 shares the same driver as 88E8056, check out this forum thread:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id...
Scroll down to note #5 and get the kABI tracking kmod-sk98lin package. There will be no need to rebuild the driver for each kernel update.
Akemi
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
If the 88E8042 shares the same driver as 88E8056, check out this forum thread:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id...
Scroll down to note #5 and get the kABI tracking kmod-sk98lin package. There will be no need to rebuild the driver for each kernel update.
Yes, the driver sk98lin works fine for me, under 5.2
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Vnpenguin vnpenguin@vnoss.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
If the 88E8042 shares the same driver as 88E8056, check out this forum thread:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id...
Scroll down to note #5 and get the kABI tracking kmod-sk98lin package. There will be no need to rebuild the driver for each kernel update.
Yes, the driver sk98lin works fine for me, under 5.2
Thank you for the note. Then, the OP can go directly to:
http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/sk98lin/
and install the driver from there (thanks to Alan for building them). These kmods are not kernel version specific, so will survive kernel updates.
Akemi / toracat
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Vnpenguin vnpenguin@vnoss.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
If the 88E8042 shares the same driver as 88E8056, check out this forum thread:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id...
Scroll down to note #5 and get the kABI tracking kmod-sk98lin package. There will be no need to rebuild the driver for each kernel update.
Yes, the driver sk98lin works fine for me, under 5.2
Thank you for the note. Then, the OP can go directly to:
http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/sk98lin/
and install the driver from there (thanks to Alan for building them). These kmods are not kernel version specific, so will survive kernel updates.
It's mentioned in this thread, too:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=17422&forum=3...
Akemi, looks like you answered this question a bunch within the past 24 hours! :-) Thank you!
Special thanks to Alan Bartlett for building this kmod! It works for me, including over a kernel upgrade.
Thanks!
Kurt
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Kurt Hansen khansen@charityweb.net wrote:
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Vnpenguin vnpenguin@vnoss.org wrote:
Thank you for the note. Then, the OP can go directly to:
http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/sk98lin/
and install the driver from there (thanks to Alan for building them). These kmods are not kernel version specific, so will survive kernel updates.
It's mentioned in this thread, too:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=17422&forum=3...
Akemi, looks like you answered this question a bunch within the past 24 hours! :-) Thank you!
Special thanks to Alan Bartlett for building this kmod! It works for me, including over a kernel upgrade.
Yes, Alan wanted to reach as many users as we can , so I helped a bit with spreading the words. I looked at my web log and was astonished by the number of visitors and downloads.
Thanks again for reporting back with your success note.
Akemi / toracat
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:12:01AM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
Yes, Alan wanted to reach as many users as we can , so I helped a bit with spreading the words. I looked at my web log and was astonished by the number of visitors and downloads.
Does this module work with CentOS 4.7? The binary RPM appears to put it into a different tree /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5 /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra/sk98lin /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra/sk98lin/sk98lin.ko
The source RPM fails with dependency issues; it looks for kernel-devel-i386 but the package is just kernel-devel
[root]/usr/src/redhat/SPECS% rpmbuild sk98lin-kmod.spec error: Failed build dependencies: kernel-devel-i386 = 2.6.9-78.0.8.EL is needed by sk98lin-10.70.1.3-1.i386
[root]/usr/src/redhat/SPECS % rpm -qa | grep kernel-devel kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:12:01AM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
Yes, Alan wanted to reach as many users as we can , so I helped a bit with spreading the words. I looked at my web log and was astonished by the number of visitors and downloads.
Does this module work with CentOS 4.7? The binary RPM appears to put it into a different tree /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5 /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra/sk98lin /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra/sk98lin/sk98lin.ko
No, the binary is for CentOS-5 only. I mentioned this somewhere but if you did not see it, I apologize for not making it clear in this thread.
Alan is now working on providing the CentOS-4 version of the same driver. Give him (us) a bit of time. I will make an announcement when it is finally ready.
Alan, I think we need to create subdirectories like SRPMS, i386 and x86_64 on the server.
Akemi
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:12:01AM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
No, the binary is for CentOS-5 only. I mentioned this somewhere but if you did not see it, I apologize for not making it clear in this thread.
Alan is now working on providing the CentOS-4 version of the same driver. Give him (us) a bit of time. I will make an announcement when it is finally ready.
It's ready for you to grab:
http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/CentOS-4/sk98lin/
Thanks, Alan.
Akemi
HI,
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I can't find a Linux driver for it except one that appears to require me to recompile a custom kernel. I find it on the Marvell website:
No, you make a module with that downlaod. I also have the unfortunate luck to have a few systems with various Marvell nics and they aren't as good as Intel IMHO.
It's pretty simple, check the readme out.
Thanks!
I had tried that and got an error when the install.sh tried to test the module it built. It then gave me instructions for doing it manually; those instructions were for compiling the driver into the kernel, I believe.
Maybe the module was fine and just the testing procedure was off.
In any case, the sk98lin mentioned later in this thread worked.
Take care,
Kurt
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