Marvell Gigabit Ethernet driver

Hi,

I'm using a Aopen i915a-HFS Motherboard with a Marvell Gigabit Ethernet
card.
I already tried the sk98lin driver but it doesn't work.

Did anyone successfully used this Card or know the driver for it ?


regards

Fred


lspci:

0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown
device 4362 (rev 19)

Fred Kastl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a Aopen i915a-HFS Motherboard with a Marvell Gigabit Ethernet
> card.
> I already tried the sk98lin driver but it doesn't work.
>
> Did anyone successfully used this Card or know the driver for it ?
>
>
> regards
>
> Fred
>
>
> lspci:
>
> 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown
> device 4362 (rev 19)
it works fine for me out of the box with slackware 10.2 and debian 3.1

justice wrote:
> Fred Kastl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using a Aopen i915a-HFS Motherboard with a Marvell Gigabit
>> Ethernet card.
>> I already tried the sk98lin driver but it doesn't work.
>>
>> Did anyone successfully used this Card or know the driver for it ?
>>
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
>> lspci:
>>
>> 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.:
>> Unknown device 4362 (rev 19)
> it works fine for me out of the box with slackware 10.2 and debian 3.1

No, it ain't a sk98lin. It's a Yukon II chip supported by the sky2
driver, which first appeared (officially) in the 2.6.16 kernel.

Robert

In article <yCdZf.6463$4S.115@edtnps82>, (E-Mail Removed)
(justice) writes:

> Fred Kastl wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using a Aopen i915a-HFS Motherboard with a Marvell Gigabit
>> Ethernet card.
>> I already tried the sk98lin driver but it doesn't work.
>>
>> Did anyone successfully used this Card or know the driver for it ?
>>
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
>> lspci:
>>
>> 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.:
>> Unknown device 4362 (rev 19)
>
> it works fine for me out of the box with slackware 10.2 and debian 3.1

The Marvell NIC built into my ASUS A8V motherboard refused to work at
all with the driver that came with Slack 10.2. Check out

http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/DV/Staff/Le...inux_p5gd1.htm

for an account of one user's trials and tribulations, then go to

http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect...ver/zip/linux/

to find a better driver. You really need the latest and greatest
to make this hardware work. Even then, dmesg returns hundreds of

eth0: SkYuk2RestartRxBmu failed.

messages on my box, and the associated process (Pan downloading a list
of messages in a newsgroup) hangs for 60 seconds before retrying. If
anyone has any hints, let me know. (Or maybe I should see whether an
even newer driver has been uploaded...)

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On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:56, Fred Kastl <(E-Mail Removed)>
(<newscache$oxdbxi$mx9$1@firewall>) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using a Aopen i915a-HFS Motherboard with a Marvell Gigabit Ethernet
> card.

Is it a card or built-in to the motherboard.

> Did anyone successfully used this Card or know the driver for it ?

The Kubuntu 5.10 installer recognized it and I've had zero problems with it.
The Debian 3.1 installer didn't recognize the device and I didn't spend any
time trying to make it work.

> 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown
> device 4362 (rev 19)

That's exactly what mine says. I have the Asus A8V-E SE with the Marvell
controller on-board.

Fred Kastl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using a Aopen i915a-HFS Motherboard with a Marvell Gigabit Ethernet
> card.
> I already tried the sk98lin driver but it doesn't work.
>
What kernel version do you use ?
IIRC since 2.6.15 there is the sky2 driver for the Marvell Gigabit Ethernet
devices.

>> I'm using a Aopen i915a-HFS Motherboard with a Marvell Gigabit Ethernet
>> card.
>> I already tried the sk98lin driver but it doesn't work.
>>
> What kernel version do you use ?
> IIRC since 2.6.15 there is the sky2 driver for the Marvell Gigabit Ethernet
> devices.

There were some buggy versions of sk98lin distributed with stock
kernels. If you can't upgrade to 2.6.15 to try the sky2 driver, at
least upgrade your kernel as much as possible. If that doesn't work,
try replacing the driver. (It's hard to say more without knowing what
distro and kernel version you are talking about.)