Ken Schneider wrote:

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 00:48 +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:

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I have installed SuSE 9.2 pro on an Athlon with IDE hard disk.

I got some problems with my motherboard Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9

1. my USB memory stick is not recognized:

Did you by chance update the kernel and forget to reboot? It has happened to the best of us.

Reboot helped a lot, .... (I did not recognize that with the first update also the kernel was updated) Floppy and USB are recognized now. However the Ethernet port eth0 is mentioned in the dmesg, but not used 190:forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.29. 192:eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01458:e000 bound to 0000:00:0a.0 -- 219-(C)Copyright 1999-2004 Marvell(R). 220-PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64 221:eth1: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller 222- PrefPort:A RlmtMode:Check Link State 223-ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000fea56008bef3e] -- 233-ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 480 bytes per conntrack 234-ip6_conntrack version 0.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 312 bytes per conntrack 235:eth1: network connection up using port A 236- speed: 100 237- autonegotiation: yes -- 242- rx-polling: enabled 243-Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 000001003be66800(sit0) 244:eth1: no IPv6 routers present 245-PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64 246-intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49924 usecs -- 266:eth1: -- ERROR -- 267- Class: Hardware failure 268- Nr: 0x271 -- 305:eth0: no link during initialization. 306:eth0: no IPv6 routers present 307-PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64 bye Ronald

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 01:35 +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:

Ken Schneider wrote:

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Did you by chance update the kernel and forget to reboot? It has happened to the best of us.

Reboot helped a lot, .... (I did not recognize that with the first update also the kernel was updated) Floppy and USB are recognized now.

However the Ethernet port eth0 is mentioned in the dmesg, but not used

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305:eth0: no link during initialization. 306:eth0: no IPv6 routers present 307-PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64

Generally a "no link" means that the cable was not connected or is not seated all the way. Try removing and re-inserting the cable and rcnetwork restart to see if becomes available. You can check this with either dmesg or (as root) ifconfig. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 02:10 +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:

Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 01:35 +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:

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Ken Schneider wrote:

However the Ethernet port eth0 is mentioned in the dmesg, but not used

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305:eth0: no link during initialization. 306:eth0: no IPv6 routers present 307-PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64

Generally a "no link" means that the cable was not connected or is not seated all the way. Try removing and re-inserting the cable and rcnetwork restart to see if becomes available. You can check this with either dmesg or (as root) ifconfig.

Both Ethernet ports are on board, ...

They still require a cable unless it is wireless, ... -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

Hans du Plooy wrote:

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:49 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:

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rcnetwork restart to see if becomes available. You can check this with either dmesg or (as root) ifconfig.

ifconfig actually works (in "read only") mode as normal user, it's just not part of the path. You have to run: /sbin/ifconfig

Found this out when I took over care of a bunch of Mandrake 10 boxen (suddenly I appreciate SUSE a lot more than I used to!) without knowing the root password and without being able to shut some of them down.

http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=107&pId=10 was the solution! -- Ronald Wiplinger (CEO of ELMIT) http://www.elmit.com +886 (0) 939--77-55-16 or FWD 511208 - I'm a SpamCon Foundation Member, #694, Verify it at http://www.spamcon.org PS: Spam prevention! Our system is protected with a spam prevention program. If you send us an e-mail, our system will send you a confirmation message back. Just reply to this confirmation message please. After receiving this confirmation message, our system will send the hold message (one) and all future messages (after the received confirmation message) to me without asking you again.