On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:00, Martin Ullrich wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I tried both sk98lin (which works with SuSE) and skge. But none of
> them seems to detect my ethernet card correctly.
>
> Martin
>
> 2005/10/1, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > IIRC, sk98lin is deprecated; use skge instead (I have one Marvell Yukon
> > Gigabit NIC on my home PC).
> >
> > On 10/1/05, Joseph < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Try:
> > > modprobe sk98lin
> > >
> > > --
> > > #Joseph
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 13:43 +0200, Martin Ullrich wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > I recently wanted to Install gentoo on my desktop computer (Acer
> > > > 1804WSMi Laptop works fine with Gentoo!), but none of my two ethernet
> > > > cards was working when I booted the universal installation CD.
> > > >
> > > > This is the composition of my system:
> > > > Asus P5AD2 Deluxe Mainboard (Socket 775)
> > > > Intel P4 3.4 Ghz (Hyperthreading -> 2 virtual prozessors)
> > > > 2G system memory (DDR2 - 533 MHz, bios automatically overclocks to
> >
> > 600MHz)
> >
> > > > 2x Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet Cards (on board)
> > > > 2x SATA-Harddisks (disks and controller work fine)
> > > > 2x PATA CD/DVD ReWriter (working fine)
> > > >
> > > > Under SuSE Linux the driver sk98lin for the two ethernet cards works
> > > > and exports eth0 and eth1, but when I booted the CD and manually
> > > > "modprobe sk98lin" the driver, no ethernet cards were found.
> > > > I found some other stuff about ASUS Mainboards on the Internet
> > > > (sk98lin related), but it mostly didn't apply to my problem (I got NO
> > > > error message during loading the module or in dmesg).
> > > >
> > > > Does somebody know what I could do?
> > > >
> > > > Thankful for every help,
> > > > Martin
> > >
> > > --
> > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> > --
> > - Mark Shields
I've had a similar experience with gentoo CDs and the same module. You may 
need to run dhcpd explicitly first. I think it may be something in the boot 
dependencies, but don't quote me on that. What version of the CD are you 
using?
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