On 9/3/06, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at 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. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.