When using 4.4 to install on gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2 motherboard basically an Nforce 410/430 chipset then network is not initially detect to perform a network install. It let me attempt to manually select a driver but I do not see the driver in the list.
After installing the network works and the forcedeth driver is loaded.
Is there a way to get this driver detected or manually loaded?
THanks, jerry
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 11:00 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
When using 4.4 to install on gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2 motherboard basically an Nforce 410/430 chipset then network is not initially detect to perform a network install. It let me attempt to manually select a driver but I do not see the driver in the list.
After installing the network works and the forcedeth driver is loaded.
Is there a way to get this driver detected or manually loaded?
THanks, jerry _______________________________________________
According to the upstream release notes ... this is supposed to be fixed on 4.4
From rom the kernel changelog and release notes:
-amd74xx: add pci ids for Nvidia MCP51 -Update 4 adds Nvidia nForce 430/MCP51 IDE support
------------------------- It would be a PITA to add this support to the bootable CD/DVD if it is not already there.
If you are already installed and just need to get the module to start on bootup, just making sure that /etc/modprobe.conf has the right things should work unless there is something required in /dev (maybe a udev rule).
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 10:35 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 11:00 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
When using 4.4 to install on gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2 motherboard basically an Nforce 410/430 chipset then network is not initially detect to perform a network install. It let me attempt to manually select a driver but I do not see the driver in the list.
After installing the network works and the forcedeth driver is loaded.
Is there a way to get this driver detected or manually loaded?
THanks, jerry _______________________________________________
According to the upstream release notes ... this is supposed to be fixed on 4.4
From rom the kernel changelog and release notes:
-amd74xx: add pci ids for Nvidia MCP51 -Update 4 adds Nvidia nForce 430/MCP51 IDE support
I think the issue is with the Realtek RTL8211 Gigabit Ethernet controller that the board uses and not the nVidia chipset.
A quick solution might be to find any 10/100 NIC and see if that works instead. I looked and did not find what module to load for the RTL-8211 chip.
Regards, Paul
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 21:49 -0500, Paul wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 10:35 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 11:00 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
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I think the issue is with the Realtek RTL8211 Gigabit Ethernet controller that the board uses and not the nVidia chipset.
A quick solution might be to find any 10/100 NIC and see if that works instead. I looked and did not find what module to load for the RTL-8211 chip.
Knowing how the various releases of chips are often so common in a family, maybe it matches the RTL 8169/8110s on a NIC card in one of my machines? The driver loaded for that is r8169. Give it a try after boot. If it works, you can pop it into your initrd, update init or configs and make a new initrd.
Regards, Paul
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HTH -- Bill
On 9/3/06, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 21:49 -0500, Paul wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 10:35 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 11:00 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
<snip>
I think the issue is with the Realtek RTL8211 Gigabit Ethernet controller that the board uses and not the nVidia chipset.
A quick solution might be to find any 10/100 NIC and see if that works instead. I looked and did not find what module to load for the RTL-8211 chip.
Knowing how the various releases of chips are often so common in a family, maybe it matches the RTL 8169/8110s on a NIC card in one of my machines? The driver loaded for that is r8169. Give it a try after boot. If it works, you can pop it into your initrd, update init or configs and make a new initrd.
Just an FYI. I have an MCP51 board (Gateway GT4016), and the NIC works just fine on CentOS 4.3/4.4.
The only hitch is that the forcedeth driver has a major bug for dual-boot users. Running the NIC from Windows leaves the card in a state that the forcedeth driver cannot handle after a warm reboot. You have to unplug the box from power to reset the card. I don't know when and if the upstream provider will backport the latest forcedeth patches to correct the problem.
This is not a Red Hat / CentOS problem - the most common versions of forcedeth have thesame failing on any distro.
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