Re: onboard ethernet on Tyan Thunder K8WE (s2895)

[Brett Ellis <ellis@cs.utk.edu>]

Trying doing a lspci in one of the text base windows and see
if it sees the nics.  You may need to boot with pci=nommconf
to see past the nvidia bridge.
Brett

Sebastian Haase wrote:
> Hi,
> I just got this new dual Opteron PC at my desk...
> I tried the official netinst CD and 
> http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/sarge-amd64-2.6.12-netinst.iso
>
> neither recognises the NIC. All I know is, it's a
> nVidia MAC nForce Prof 2200  and (2nd port) Prof 2050.
>
> I read some about "forcedeth" but don't know what that is ...
>
> Any hints !?
>
> Thanks,
> Sebastian Haase