On Friday, 04 March 2005 21:07, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: > Alois Zoitl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i got this htin g yesterday and I'm not to glad about it because I > > can not get the network running. > > As far as I found out it uses also the sk98lin driver. > > But the standard driver that comes along with the debian amd 64 cd > > fails the installation. > > After using an additional card I was able to upgrade to the gcc-3.4 > > tree. And after installing > > the 2.6.9-9 kernel I could load the sk98lin module with modconf. > > But I don't think its working. > > I've hit the same problem on the same board. Running a freshly > installed pure64 sarge. > > - the driver on the DFS cd states No adapter found > - the driver in 2.6.11 from ftp.kernel.org doesn't do anything - > modprobe sk98lin doesn't report anything on the console or dmesg. > modules are working, as I can load the 3c59x module without problems > for a temporary alternate nic The sk98lin driver in the kernel doesn't work with this motherboard. Instead, you must use the one from: <http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk9e21_lin.htm> (The module is GPL'd, and AFAICT is the same driver as what is in the kernel, except MUCH MUCH newer... so who knows why it isn't in the main kernel tree.) -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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