Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

[thaiv@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hey Donald,

Thanks for the recommendation, but I tried this earlier & it still doesn't
recognize the lan connection.  I'm getting pretty frustrated since on the Suse
website; this motherboard was listed as being fully supported.  Anyways, I'll
working at it.

vu

Quoting Donald Correll <donaldcorrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hey thiav,
> Try loading the NVidia NForce 2 drivers from their Website:    
>
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.suse90.i586.rpm
> Good luck.
> Donald Correll
> 
> thaiv@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> >Hi All (once again), 
> >
> >sorry to those who have seen this already & to Carlos for hijacking his
> >thread... like i mention in the next sentence, I'm new to all of this.
> >
> >I'm a linux newbie who just installed suse 9.0 pro on a desktop that I
> built 
> >(new to all of this). 
> >Suse doesn't recognize the ethernet port on my motherboard during the
> initial
> >installation, and i can't seem to get the set up right using Yast2.  So
> here
> >is my system: 
> >
> >Athlon XP 2500+ 
> >Asus A7N8X (which is suppose to be fully supported for Suse according to
> 
> >the hardware support page) 
> >liteon DVD/ CDRW combo drive. 
> >
> >I am dual booting w/ windows XP, home edition (it recognizes my
> connection) 
> >I have DSL connection through Comcast. 
> >
> >I don't believe there is an issue w/ my internet provider because when I
> 
> >installed Suse onto 
> >my labtop, it recognized the hardware & also my internet connection w/o
> any 
> >problems or additional software. 
> >
> >I installed the linux drivers that came w/ the motherboard.. but still no
> 
> >connection. 
> >
> >I've seen some postings about this problem on other forums.. but I
> haven't
> >seen a posting to help resolve the situation.
> >
> >If anyone has any ideas please let me know.. oh, & if you can be pretty 
> >thorough in your explaination 
> >(ie... please type out commands if they are not common) since i'm kinda
> new 
> >to all of this. 
> >
> >
> >thanks alot & cheers, 
> >Vu 
> >
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