On Friday 19 February 2010 11:41:50 C wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:11, Charles Obler <joyinstruggle@yahoo.com> wrote:
I've just installed 11.2, and I'm SHOCKED by the apparent loss of functionality.
Internet: * Worst of all, I find that my new nVidia MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2), on the market since 2006, is still not working in 11.2!
Is that a fault of openSUSE11.2? or the manufacturer not writing drivers?
It's neither. The driver is a part of the kernel and has been for a while.
What's your point? Some hardware doesn't work in Linux.. this isn't something new.... buy hardware that's compatible... contact the vendor...
In this case, I'm not sure why the OP is having an issue with the MCP61 ethernet controller. I don't know exactly when support was added to the kernel but it was there in openSUSE 11.1, and definitely works in 11.2: davjam@moray:~/sync> sudo /usr/sbin/hwinfo --netcard root's password: 17: PCI 07.0: 0200 Ethernet controller [Created at pci.318] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_3ef Unique ID: rBUF.KlYnqA_D_C5 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:07.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "nVidia MCP61 Ethernet" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x03ef "MCP61 Ethernet" SubVendor: pci 0x1565 "Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp" SubDevice: pci 0x2505 Revision: 0xa2 Driver: "forcedeth" Driver Modules: "forcedeth" Device File: eth0 Memory Range: 0xfe02d000-0xfe02dfff (rw,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0xec00-0xec07 (rw) IRQ: 27 (257507043 events) HW Address: 00:e0:4d:9e:6f:19 Link detected: yes Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd000003EFsv00001565sd00002505bc06sc80i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: forcedeth is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe forcedeth" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown davjam@moray:~/sync> sudo /sbin/ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4D:9E:6F:19 inet addr:192.168.0.131 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4dff:fe9e:6f19/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:145993332 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:116356082 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:150353357732 (143388.1 Mb) TX bytes:57509064165 (54844.9 Mb) Interrupt:27 Base address:0x6000 davjam@moray:~/sync> sudo /sbin/lspci | grep "Ethernet" 00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 11.0 32b | | | openSUSE 11.3M1 32b openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org