Re: [gentoo-user] Marvell Yukon 88E8001 not working, already tried "modprobe sk98lin" et al

[Joseph <syscon@interbaun.com>]

modprobe forcedeth

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#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
> 


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