Hey Phil, Whether the onBoard NIC is going to work or not depends on the revision of the mainboard. We got two of'em for testing and debugging, Rev. 1.02 is what I'm using right now and Rev 1.03 which another of our hardware testers is going to use starting next week (also getting a new AMD CPU :)). I've had no trouble activating it on 1.03, what drivers are you using? We got Beta drivers from nVidia which seem to work just fine, however I am not allowed to give that driver away and it's not yet available to public :( However I've had a very similar problem with 1.02: I's able to load the module and I was also able to ping my server and several websites. I was not able to ssh to my server or to load any of the websites in any webbrowser. No trouble whatsoever with 1.03, what Revision do you have? You should have 1.03 since 1.02 wasn't available to public either and is still a prototype. SuSE 8.2/AMD64 does not have the proper driver for the onBoard NIC yet, you'd have to use the nVidia driver. But first, could you be so kind and tell me what revision of the SK8N you have, 1.02 or 1.03? What version is your BIOS? Maybe there's something we can do about that onBoard NIC ;) Martin On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 00:47, Phil Chapman wrote:
Hi Martin,
thanks for the tips. I've just installed it on an 80Gb WD. No problems except for the network. Have you managed to get the on-board LAN working?
It seemed to detect it during install, but then failed when doing it's test connect :(
Any ideas? At this stage I was just about to put in a different nic.
It seems like a great board though!!!
Thanks
Phil
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Martin Jungowski wrote:
Hi,
You're lucky cause I got that exact same mainboard & CPU and I've been running SuSE x86-64 for a couple of weeks now ;) There are Drivers available for this S-ATA controller but I haven't tested them yet:
http://www.busybox.net/pdc-ultra-1.00.0.10.tgz
It should be working though, give it a shot. However I'd suggest you install SuSE x86-64 on a P-ATA drive connected to the onBoard onChipset IDE-Controller. Don't forget to enable UDMA and 32-bit mode for the harddrive afterwards:
hdparm -d1 -c1 /dev/hda
Note that this will only work with the SuSE default kernel 2.4.19 but not with any other self compiled kernel yet. Apparantly, SuSE updated the IDE-driver in that specific kernel and those patches are not part of 2.6 yet.
Martin
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 20:20, Phil Chapman wrote:
Hi,
just subscribed to the list. I got an opteron 144 on an Asus SK8N mobo this week with a 120Gb seagate SATA drive.
Can SuSE 8.2 be installed directly to the drive ? I can't get it to recognise it at all, but am not sure which drivers to use? Or should I just install to a default IDE drive and use the SATA drive seperately?
Thanks for any help
Phil Chapman