FOLLOWUP: [gentoo-user] K8N Neo4 and skge

["Vernon A. Fort" <vfort@provident-solutions.com>]

Vernon A. Fort wrote:

> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:27 -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote:
>>  
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>>> New to gentoo!    
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>> Welcome to a new world of learning!
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>>  
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>>> I have gentoo amd64 loaded and the forcedepth drive is detecting the 
>>> first network card.  Both the default skge and the sk98lin manually 
>>> downloaded from SysKonnect will load without errors and display in 
>>> the lsmod.  Neither will actually detect the network card.
>>>   
>>
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>> I don't get it. If it's modprobed and lsmod shows it, means the cards
>> are detected. your lcpci shows the cards are detected.
>>
>>  
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>>>  I have included the lspci -vv at the end of this message.
>>>
>>>   1.  are both of these interfaces active, meaning can I use both.
>>>   
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>> Yes. Doesn't ifconfig show anything? ifconfig eth1 or ifconfig eth0??
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>>  
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>>>   2.  Being new to gentoo, should the interface be added 
>>> automatically upon modprobe or is there something more I need to do.
>>>   
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>> U modprobe the drivers, they get seen by the kernel. Then you need to up
>> the interface. DHCP?
>>
>> make sure you edit /etc/conf.d/net (there are example files in there as
>> well)
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>> /etc/init.d/net.eth? up
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>> Oh.. yeah.. since you have 2 eth, make the apropriate symlink for eth1
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>> eg: ln -s eth0 eth1
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> I think this may be a PCIE issue, from what I have read.  But, I have 
> recomplied the kernel (network devices) and configured both the 
> forcedepth and skge drivers as modules.  If I unload the forcedepth or 
> rename so it won't start durning boot, the SKGE driver WILL load and 
> be listed in the lsmod and lspci but does nothing - no dmesg 
> anything!  Its almost like the driver sees the device but is waiting 
> on something else to load.....  There's very little information 
> concerning this device - I'll keep digging.
>
> Vernon

Ok - I managed to get this working, kind of.  I installed a fresh 
gentoo-sources, selected the forcedepth, skge and the sk98lin drivers as 
modules.  Recompiled and booted.  Then I downloaded the
http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk9elin.htm and 
ran the install.  It did detect the network card!!  I configued and 
rebooted.  Both network cards did come up - I assigned different ip 
address to both cards ( both on the same network - 192.168.1.50 (eth0) 
and 192.168.1.55(eth1).  The odd thing is if I plug in the eth0 card, I 
can telnet to BOTH ip addresses while eth1 is disconnected.  If I 
disconnect eth0 and connect eth1, I cannot connect to either address.  
Am I missing something????????? or is this the correct behavior?

Vernon

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