eth2 on A7N8X-E? (fedora2-test1)

[Lennart Jonsson]

Oops, should probably name the motherboard as well. It's a Asus A7N8X-E.
Also, 

  [root at as1-6-6 root]# /bin/dmesg
[...]
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.19.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to 0000:00:04.0
kudzu: numerical sysctl 1 49 is obsolete.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8191 buckets, 65528 max) - 324 bytes per
conntrack
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-4-72. error = 256
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c039d980(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[...]


Any help appreciated

/Lennart


On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:32 +0200, Lennart Jonsson wrote:
> I installed fedora2-test1 on my computer and everything (almost) works
> very well. However, I just cant seem to get eth2 to work. 
> 
> [root at as1-6-6 root]# ifup eth2
> forcedeth device eth2 does not seem to be present, delaying
> initialization.
> 
> [root at as1-6-6 root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth2
> # nVidia Corporation|nForce2 Ethernet Controller
> DEVICE=eth2
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=none
> IPADDR=10.10.121.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> TYPE=Ethernet
> USERCTL=no
> PEERDNS=no
> IPV6INIT=no
> 
> I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.1-1.65 to 2.6.4-1.298 hoping that this
> would help, but the results the same. 
> 
> I must admit that I'm quite confused on the mechanisms to get this
> working. If I look in:
> 
> [root at as1-6-6 root]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> include /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
> [...]
> alias eth2 forcedeth
> 
> and in:
> 
> [root at as1-6-6 root]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf.dist 
> # default modutils aliases
> alias binfmt-204 binfmt_aout
> [...]
> install eth0 /bin/true
> [...]
> 
> 
> This was generated by the installation, and I have no idea whether it
> makes sense or not. 
> 
> I'm relatively new to Linux, and currently I havent got a clue on what
> to do next. Anyone else had any success with this combination, or have
> some hints on how to resolve the problem?
> 
> 
> Kind regards
> /Lennart
> 
> 
> 
> 
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