Re: forcedeth wierdness

[Dean Hamstead <dean@fragfest.com.au>]

thanks for that, it was hiding up in eth5 for some reason
*shrug* and dmesg didnt bother to tell me

i will have to set it to a more reasonable eth number

Dean

Jonas Bardino wrote:
> Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > any thoughts why a forcedeth (nvidia) onboard nic would be
> > detected, but not presented as a usable card?
> >
> > i also have an onboard sky2 card which seems to work fine.
> >
> > i have tried disabling things in the bios but to no avail.
> >
> > im using a winbond motherboard.
> >
> > i can give more detailed outputs if needed.
> >
> > forcedeth has worked fine for me on other mboards *shrug*
> >
> > Dean
>
> Hi Dean
>
> I'm not sure this is the same problem, but I remember having problems
> with asus nforce boards and forcedeth until I disabled firewire
> (IEEE1394) in the BIOS.
>
> If that doesn't help you may need to provide some more information like
> log output from the card initialization and the output of ifconfig -a .
>
> Cheers, Jonas

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