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Re: onboard ethernet on Tyan Thunder K8WE (s2895)



Greetings Brett:

I have that same board.  I could not get it to boot off of the Sarge netinst CD at all.  It successfully boots and installs from the Etch testing netinst CD, though.

-Scott

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: 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
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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