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On Thursday 03 August 2006 07:51, Ralph Seichter wrote: |
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> I have a hard time installing Gentoo 2006.0 using either the minimal |
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> installation image or the LiveCD. The machine has a Asus A8V Deluxe |
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> mainboard with onboard networking. Windows identifies the network |
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> controller as "Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet", |
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> and Gentoo's lspci confirms this. However, I can't get the network card |
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> up and running with Gentoo (it works fine with i.e. OpenSUSE 10). |
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> Searching this mailing list turned up hints to use "modprobe sk98lin", |
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> "modprobe skge" and "modprobe sky2" after booting. I tried all three |
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> variants, and lsmod lists the respective modules. After using "net-setup |
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> et0", ifconfig shows "Link encap:UNSPEC" and a weird hardware address. |
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> Ping fails for all addresses except the machine's own, and "RX bytes" |
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> for eht0 always remains zero. |
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> Any ideas? I'm pretty much stuck now and I'd appreciate your help. |
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincerely |
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> Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter |
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I too have an A8V-Deluxe and have had problems with various distros (Ubuntu, |
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Kubuntu, and others) trying to get the Marvell Yukon controller working. |
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About a year ago while doing some google searches trying to resolve this same |
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problem, I found an article some guy wrote about the problem. I'm sorry but |
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I don't have that info or the web site anymore. He said the problem was |
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that ASUS had done something to the chip that caused many linux distros to be |
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unable to probe what he called its PID. His description was too technical |
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for me. His ultimate suggestion, which I followed, was to go out to your |
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favorite computer store, purchase a NIC card (about $20 US) off the shelf, |
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install it in your computer, and disable the on-board Marvell Yukon |
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controller in the BIOS. |
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This may not be the solution you want. I did it and have never had another |
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problem installing any distro, including Gentoo, and getting my network up |
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and running. |
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Good luck! |
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Bill |
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