modprobe forcedeth -- #Joseph
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 14:51 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote: > I have a hard time installing Gentoo 2006.0 using either the minimal > installation image or the LiveCD. The machine has a Asus A8V Deluxe > mainboard with onboard networking. Windows identifies the network > controller as "Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet", > and Gentoo's lspci confirms this. However, I can't get the network card > up and running with Gentoo (it works fine with i.e. OpenSUSE 10). > > Searching this mailing list turned up hints to use "modprobe sk98lin", > "modprobe skge" and "modprobe sky2" after booting. I tried all three > variants, and lsmod lists the respective modules. After using "net-setup > et0", ifconfig shows "Link encap:UNSPEC" and a weird hardware address. > Ping fails for all addresses except the machine's own, and "RX bytes" > for eht0 always remains zero. > > Any ideas? I'm pretty much stuck now and I'd appreciate your help. > > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincerely > Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
