Re: onboard ethernet on Tyan Thunder K8WE (s2895)

[Sebastian Haase <haase@msg.ucsf.edu>]

Thanks for the replies.
sarge-amd64-2.6.12-netinst.iso did not auto-detect the NICs but after
manually choosing forcedeth it actually worked.
ONLY: that I did get some "timeout" kernel error messages (sorry, forgot 
the exact text)  and it only really worked after I switched the network 
cable between the two ports back and forth many times !!
How can I know which port is eth0 and which eth1  ?
And - if not - can I at least rely on the order staying the same between 
reboots ?? (I want to connect one port to the internet the other to a 
local (unroutable) private sub-net...

Is "forcedeth" the only possible driver ? Just curious ...

Thanks,
Sebastian Haase


David Liontooth wrote:
> 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
> >   
> According to http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we_spec.html it 
> does have two nvidia NICs -- I found on a rather different Gigabyte K8NS 
> with a similar NIC (identified on the board as ICS1883, regrettably 
> disabled on recent versions of this mobo) that the card had some 
> difficulties getting going during installation, but in fact is well 
> supported as a gb NIC by the forcedeth driver. You may need a more 
> recent version than the one on the install CD. I get this in dmesg:
>
> eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01458:e000 bound to 0000:00:05.0
> forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.31.
>
> This just to give thumbs up that this is the driver and it should work 
> fine. Someone with the same board would know if there are issues.
>
> Dave
>
>
> *Integrated Secure Network Processor*
> • Two IEEE 802.3 Nvidia MAC 1000/100/10
> Ethernet (1st from nForce™ Prof. 2200,
> 2nd from nForce Prof. 2050)
> • Supports WOL and PXE
> • Supports Ethernet Jumbo Frames (9018 Bytes)
> • Full Duplex Gigabit Ethernet support