[opensuse] Re: nVidia MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) "No configuration found" boot message
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:33:09 -0800 (PST) Charles Obler <joyinstruggle@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply and the suggestion, Malcolm.
I must be missing something, however: How can I use the net install, when I don't have internet access on the new machine? I have a broadband connection, and it uses the ethernet device.
I don't even know that 11.2 WILL support the device. I should have been more thorough, checking for Linux compatible hardware, but I wasn't expecting ethernet to be a problem. Now I have six days to decide whether to return the computer. Hi AFAIK it uses forcedeth module, which should be there, you can always add the insmod=forcedeth on the grub command line. Don't you have a USB key available to just download a liveCD and burn a CD image?
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forcedeth is what I found too, with Google. Here is what my own research has turned up: http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/FORCEDETH.html -- mentions MCP61 http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=37871&view=findpost&p=208526 -- suggests using AHCI http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.23.html +( The following table provides information and a download link for these NVIDIA drivers in pre-compiled binary, RPM, and source code form for various Linux distributions. These drivers have been fully tested with the nForce Professional Series. Usage on other nForce chipsets will work, but should be considered as beta. Version: 1.23 Release Date: June 25, 2007 Download V 1.23 Supported Distributions: SLES 10 (2.6.16.21) RHEL 3 UP7 (2.4.21-40) RHEL 4 UP4 (2.6.9-42) RHEL 4 UP5 (2.6.9-55) Fedora Core 5 (2.6.15-1) RHEL 3 UP8 (2.4.21-47) SuSE 10.2 (2.6.18.2) RHEL 5 (2.6.18-1) )+ http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0710.0/0172.html +( From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> PCI: nVidia's MCP61 ethernet card needs quirk for wrong class The MCP61 ethernet controller from nVidia (NVENET_19) contains wrong PCI class: 00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet [10de:03ef] (rev a2) i.e. it identifies itself as a bridge. Fix this. .... (patch) )+ I'm not sure what to make of all of this. But I'm a little more optimistic now about 11.2 working. Or, if it doesn't work, perhaps I can figure out the patch. --- On Wed, 2/10/10, Malcolm <malcolm_lewis@bellsouth.net> wrote:
From: Malcolm <malcolm_lewis@bellsouth.net> Subject: [opensuse] Re: nVidia MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) "No configuration found" boot message To: opensuse@opensuse.org Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 6:01 PM On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:33:09 -0800 (PST) Charles Obler <joyinstruggle@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply and the suggestion, Malcolm.
I must be missing something, however: How can I use the net install, when I don't have internet access on the new machine? I have a broadband connection, and it uses the ethernet device.
I don't even know that 11.2 WILL support the device. I should have been more thorough, checking for Linux compatible hardware, but I wasn't expecting ethernet to be a problem. Now I have six days to decide whether to return the computer. Hi AFAIK it uses forcedeth module, which should be there, you can always add the insmod=forcedeth on the grub command line. Don't you have a USB key available to just download a liveCD and burn a CD image?
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On Thursday 11 February 2010 00:44:35 Charles Obler wrote: <snip>
I'm not sure what to make of all of this. But I'm a little more optimistic now about 11.2 working. Or, if it doesn't work, perhaps I can figure out the patch.
The nVidia MCP61 is supported under 11.1 and 11.2 and uses the forcedeth module[0]. I can't say if it is supported by 11.0 as I don't have a MCP61-based motherboard running 11.0. [0] As a FYI, 11.1 also supports the MCP78S, also using the forcedeth module. 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
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