Hello,

I have two pc's, one is a k6-2 500 and the other is a 2 gig xp. They both run RH9 and the k6-2 has a netgear fa311 nic and the xp has an onboard realtek lan port (mobo leaktek k7n415da).

Please can someone point me in the directions for drivers for getting both of these devices to work and how I install them...

I am also using a cable modem and netgear rp614v2 cable router. In windows I let the k6-2 be assigned an ip addy by dhcp and the xp machine I use a static ip outside the dhcp range....

thanks in advance

Ran.

I have contacted Leadtek about the onboard realtek lan port and thy have informed me thats its an nvidia chipset and I should download it from the following:-

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261

I will try this later and see if I can get it working....

I still need to know where I can get hold of drivers for an fa311 netgear nic for RH9............

cheers

Ran

The FA311 NIC uses the natsemi module which should be included in the default RH9 install.

Try:
modprobe natsemi

Cheers,

When I booted up it detected it and installed it, I modified it and activated it but I still cant get internet access. I will continue to have a look at it to see if I have missed anything.

It must be down to me using my netgear rp614v2 router because when I had it connected to the cable modem before it worked fine.

Settings so far....N.B I have not changed the hostname and want to. What is the safest way to do this and where do I change it....?

Also I have written tick for the options that I have used.....

ifconfig

link ecap :ethernet
inet add: 192.168.0.3 bcast 192.168.0.255 mask 255.255.255.0

up broadcast running multicast mtu:1500 metric 1

then theres an entry for loopback

Net Config

tick active eth0 fa311 ethernet

Hardware

natsemi df83815 fast ethernet ethernet eth0

DNS

localhost@localdomain
pri dns 194.168.4.100
sec dns 194.168.8.100
tet - blank
dns search path localdomain

Hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost


Ethernet device page

nick fa311

tick activate when puter starts

tick automatically obtain ip address settings with dhcp

no hostname

tick automatically obtain dns info from provider


Route

Destination network - blank (what do I put here ?? )
prefix netmask 255.255.255.0 (is this right ?)
Gateway 192.168.0.1 (Thats the router gateway addy, is that what it wants ? )

Hardware Device

eth0 (natsemi dp83815 fast ethernet)

device alias number blank

tick bind to mac address (not sure if I needed to tic this)....

Can anyone spot any mistakes above which I need to alter to make things work ?

rgds

Ran.

thanks again

Ran

anyone ?

-Your netmask is correct, as is your gateway entry.
-The destination network is 192.168.0.0, although it may not be necessary to enter it.
- Turn off "obtain DNS from provider..." if you've already entered the correct DNS server IPs in the config utility. Those addresses are stored in your /etc/resolv.conf file. Check that file and make sure the right IPs are in it.

1. Can you ping one machine's IP from the other, or ping the IP of the router?
2. If so, can you ping an IP on the Internet, or ping by URL? Try Google:

ping -c5 216.239.57.99
and:
ping -c5 www.google.com

What happens?

3. I'm not familiar with that particular model of router, so I can't suggest anything there.

4. For hostname issues related to DHCP, check the threads in this link.

Thanks alot for the advice,

I have changed the hostname and can ping ip addies and urls just fine. I do have a machine with a static ip on my network(uning xp atm) which I couldn't ping....other than that...all was well....

I do have one small problem and that is mozilla....For some reason, it wont start. It says starting, then goes through the routine and then does nothing.....

I ahve got internet access tho because I can use konqueror just fine..........

Also, does anyone know how to run msn messenger on linux and where would I a) download it from and b)install it.......


thanks all

Ran.

Right I have one working, now the other.......

I downloaded the nforce drivers for my mobo and installed them.....

I used modprobe naysemi and it picked the ethernet connection up.....

The only thing is I dont know what irq it uses, I'm gonna have a look in a mo and everytime I activate it, it says nvnet device eth0 does not seem to be present.

I have tried to set it up similar to the one that is working but with a static ip and diff hostname of course....

When I do ifconfig there is no entry for the ethernet port just the loopback.....

any ideas...

ta

Ran.

I hope that's a typo. You don't want to load the natsemi module for the NIC built into NForce; use the NVidia-supplied drivers.

You can check your IRQ and I/O address assignments with the following commands:

less /proc/interrupts
less /proc/ioports

If you see a conflict with another device, turn off Plug-N-Play OS support in you BIOS if possible. If that doesn't clear thigs up, sometimes opening the machine and physically rearranging the slot order of the PCI cards can force resource reallocation.

yup it was a typo, I did use modprobe natsemi...

will that booger things up ?

I've tried the Nforce drivers again and it says they are installed.

Looking at the results of /procs/interrupts and /procs/ioports, I don't know if any are the onboard lan...

How do I install just nforce drivers and setup the lan port ?

rgds

Ran.

Oh, right. There was a real typo in there as well. I meant that you don't want to load the Netgear natsemi driver for the NForce on board NIC.

Post the output the IRQ and I/O assignments.
Also post the result of the following command (case-sensitive; the first letter is a lower-case "L"):

lspci -v |grep Eth

That should verify what kind of beast the NIC really is.

I thought the Realtek was the onboard NIC which would be the NForce drives and the FA311 which I have one in my is a PCI card and uses the natsemi module.

It would be less confusing if you would specify which PC is working by reference to K6 or XP.

The k6-2 is working fine and that uses the fa-311....


The 2gig xp using onboard lan is the one playing up......I have installed the nforce drivers, but can't see it anywhere in the hardware section or when I do ioports/interrupts or ifconfig....

I checked in winxp and it reckons the irq is 22 and its an nvidia nforce mcp networking adapter.....

When I check in rh9, the irq bit only goes to 15 (I think)....



oppps forgot this bit.....

lspci - 00:04.0 Ethernet Controller nvidia corporation nforce Ethernet Controller (rev c2)

ioports

0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
0378-037a : parport0
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
5000-500f : nVidia Corporation nForce PCI System Management
5100-511f : nVidia Corporation nForce PCI System Management
6000-600f : nVidia Corporation nForce PCI System Management
c000-cfff : PCI Bus #01
c000-c01f : Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1
c400-c407 : Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port
d800-d807 : PCI device 10de:01c3 (nVidia Corporation)
e000-e00f : nVidia Corporation nForce IDE
e000-e007 : ide0
e008-e00f : ide1

interrupts

CPU0
0: 40482 XT-PIC timer
1: 431 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
11: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci
12: 1694 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 6740 XT-PIC ide0
15: 7394 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0


Hope that throws some light on things...........

Have you turned off BIOS PNP as I suggested earlier?

XP is reporting IRQs higher than 15 due to the use of the APIC chip on your motherboard. Some APIC implementations don't play nicely with Linux, and there is an option called "noapic" which you can use as a workaround. Additional kernel/boot options exist, and their usage is documented in the appendix of either the User's Manual or Customization Guide available on Redhat's support site.

As far as loading the driver, did you download just a network driver, or did you get a package of various nvidia drivers? As I recall, the individual nvidia network driver is (or at least was) named "nvnet"; you might try "modprobe nvnet" and see what happens.

If you get no errors, the "lsmod" command should show nvnet in the list of loaded modules. If that's the case, see if you can activate the card from there.

bios pnp is off....

on boot, there is a message saying bringing up interface eth0 - nvnet does not exist blahblahblah

I looked at the screen before linux boots and it reckons the irq for the network controller is 11.

I did a modprobe nvnet and it displayed :- modprobe: cant locate module nvnet.

lsmod results:-

Module Size Used by Not tainted
parport_pc 18756 1 (autoclean)
lp 8868 0 (autoclean)
parport 36480 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 12948 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipt_REJECT 3896 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2380 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14648 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
sg 35980 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17912 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 11984 0
scsi_mod 106200 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35196 0
cdrom 33472 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2880 0 (unused)
mousedev 5428 1
hid 21700 0 (unused)
input 5792 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci 21160 0 (unused)
usbcore 77696 1 [hid usb-ohci]
ext3 69984 4
jbd 51220 4 [ext3]

Yet in the Network Adapter Config Window there is an entry for nvnet eth0 (no irq), I tried 11 and it said command failed: /sbin/modprobe nvnet irq 11 output modprobe cant locate module nvnet. I tried most of the irq's and it still didnt work.

bloomin thing

btw - the driver used was in post 2 or 3 of this thread....