[gentoo-user] via_rhine adaptor won't work

[gentoo-user] via_rhine adaptor won't work

[krgn]

I am in the process of installing on another computer at the moment
which has this via_rhine network interface. I will not start normally
without a solution I have found on the net. At least this worked for the
liveCD installation stage. It is issuing acpi=off and noapic to the
kernel. 
Now it is booted into the 'real' kernel and I gave it these options
before boot;

grub.conf

kernel /boot/gentoo-2.6.15-ck-1 root=/dev/hda3 acpi=off noapic

but still the adapter won't work anymore. What could be the reason. It
shows the same symptoms as before, ifconfig eth0 will show the device
properly configured but trying to add a route will fail.

Please help..

KArsten

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Re: [gentoo-user] via_rhine adaptor won't work

[david]

Are you sure /etc/resolv.conf is O.K.
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Re: [gentoo-user] via_rhine adaptor won't work

[krgn]

> Are you sure /etc/resolv.conf is O.K.

absolutely.
It just contains:

	nameserver 192.168.1.1

I found the solution (for the liveCD) here, but still, after boot these
options do not do the job anymore:

http://skreak.com/m6805/

I don't know, but I though there must have been some improvement since
then, maybe there is something much more elegant out there but I could
not find it. Something else made me suspicous after I finished working
within the liveCD environment was that the via_rhine module was always
together with another module called 'mii' which I don*t know yet. That
is another difference to the liveCD setup. Maybe you know what it means?

KArstne

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Re: [gentoo-user] via_rhine adaptor won't work

[Craig Duncan]

krgn wrote:
>> Are you sure /etc/resolv.conf is O.K.
>>     
>
> absolutely.
> It just contains:
>
> 	nameserver 192.168.1.1
>
> I found the solution (for the liveCD) here, but still, after boot these
> options do not do the job anymore:
>
> http://skreak.com/m6805/
>
> I don't know, but I though there must have been some improvement since
> then, maybe there is something much more elegant out there but I could
> not find it. Something else made me suspicous after I finished working
> within the liveCD environment was that the via_rhine module was always
> together with another module called 'mii' which I don*t know yet. That
> is another difference to the liveCD setup. Maybe you know what it means?
>
> KArstne
>
>   
May I suggest that you google (or other se) "linux kernal module mii"
I saw a lot of information on this that might help out.

Sincerely,

Craig Duncan
Entuend, Inc.
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Re: [gentoo-user] via_rhine adaptor won't work

[Bogo Mipps]

On Monday 20 February 2006 13:44, krgn wrote:
> Something else made me suspicous after I finished working
> within the liveCD environment was that the via_rhine module was always
> together with another module called 'mii' which I don*t know yet. That
> is another difference to the liveCD setup. Maybe you know what it means?

What's your dmesg telling you?  Here's mine - via_rhine installed with minimal 
2005.0.iso if that's any help:

<snip>
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> 
IRQ 11
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1e800, 00:50:2c:05:34:ca, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1 Link 45e1.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> 
IRQ 5
<snip>

lsmod indicates no mii module installed on this machine.

Bogo

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