Motherboard and LAN interface

I got brand new ASRock K8NF4G motherboard. The board comes with lots
of interesting features, but the thing that annoys me is built in LAN
interface. I've been told it only needs module 'forcedeth' to make it
rock for me.

Oh yes, after I have modprobed forcedeth and set up those ip's and
netmasks and so, everything seems to be ok. But it isn't, really. I
keep getting 'Network unreacable' messages when I try to access other
machines in my network. There's no link led next rj-45 connector on
the motherboard, but in the hub end, there's no light in that led.

I'm using kernel version 2.6.16 at this time, can somebody tell me a
version that works with my motherboard?

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/Kallu, OH3FG < khmi at nic fi >

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:00:22 +0000, mina wrote:

> Oh yes, after I have modprobed forcedeth and set up those ip's and
> netmasks and so, everything seems to be ok. But it isn't, really. I
> keep getting 'Network unreacable' messages when I try to access other
> machines in my network. There's no link led next rj-45 connector on
> the motherboard, but in the hub end, there's no light in that led.

You may be looking at a cable problem. I'm using forcedeth on eth0 of a
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and the link lights on both ends function as
expected even when the machine is soft-off.





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Snowbat <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> You may be looking at a cable problem. I'm using forcedeth on eth0 of a
> MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and the link lights on both ends function as
> expected even when the machine is soft-off.

At first I thought so, too. But when I found out it works perfectly
with W2k in very same machine, it can't be so. It has to be in
software somehow. I've tested it with kernel versions 2.6.13,
2.6.15.1, and 2.6.16, but no luck so far. I have also tried nvidia
binary drivers downloaded from www.nvidia.com, but they would not
compile with these versions. So I think I must try something earlier
than 2.6.13 or maybe 2.4... series.




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/Kallu < khmi at nic fi >