Bug#239076: eth0 forcedeth not installed
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:23:45PM -0500, Lise & Harold wrote,
in a private message to me:
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> forcedeth works with my fedora core2 install (about only thing).
> forcedeth is working on the first pass of the Debian install, since it
> finds my dhcp server, but it does not stay for the boot, when I get the
> message of 'eth0 no such device'. forcedeth (free beer) really works
> well in general.
>
> I have another bug that I put in. When I configure using the expert
> mode, it quickly hangs on the IDE hardware detect, which it doesn't do
> on the normal mode.
My advice is to file that bug in an other bugreport.
>
> from dmesg
>
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> Bind socket to interface: No such device
>
> full line
>
> 00:05.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Ethernet (rev a5)
>
> from lspci -n
>
> 00:05.0 Class 0200: 10de:00d6 (rev a5)
>
At http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/
is GPL driver for this NIC, the name is forcedeth.o
I have not checked if the NIC is known by discover
and if there is a di-kernel module avialable.
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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