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Re: forcedeth fails on second port with error -12

Hi,
maybe the nvidia (non open-source) driver from
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_amd64_1.0-0310.html
can help ?
I don't really have a problem with non-free source - I think that nVidia is generally a "good" company for supporting Linux at all and if they feel they can do that better their way that's OK with me. The given link provides actually the source code if I'm not mistaken...
With this one would probably need to compile the source code again the installed kernel and then put *a single file* somewhere into the /lib/modules tree... - right !? 

Thanks,
Sebastian Haase

Sebastian Haase wrote:

Hi,
I have two on board ethernet on Tyan  Thunder K8WE  (s2895).
It seems the forcedeth driver works fine. But only for eth0. Eth1 doesn't show up... I thought I might need to specifically reload the module a second time with different options for the second port (like in /etc/modutils or so) !?!?!???? 

then I discovered an error message in dmesg:
<cut and paste from dmesg>
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.48.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LMAC] -> GSI 21 (level, high) -> IRQ 18 
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 010f1:2895 bound to 0000:00:0a.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 19
GSI 19 sharing vector 0xC9 and IRQ 19
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:80:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNK3] -> GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 19 
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:80:0a.0 to 64
0000:80:0a.0: Invalid Mac address detected: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Please complain to your hardware vendor. Switching to a random MAC.
0000:80:0a.0: open: Could not find a valid PHY.
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:80:0a.0 disabled
forcedeth: probe of 0000:80:0a.0 failed with error -12
Probing IDE interface ide0...
</cut and paste from dmesg>

lspci shows that 0000:80:0a.0 should be my second NIC.

Any idea what error -12 could mean ?

Thanks,
Sebastian Haase
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