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

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

[Noack, Sebastian]

> 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

Hi,

it seems to be a problem with the driver on the Gentoo LiveCD. I would propose to try an other LiveCD for example Knoppix or if you still have any other Linux distribution (you mentioned OpenSUSE) on this machine, where the network interface works boot it and use it to install Gentoo.

And don't forget to file a bug in the Gentoo bugzilla if it points out that it is indeed a problem with the driver on the Gentoo LiveCD. :)

Best Regards
Sebastian Noack

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