On 2005-06-17 13:50:54 +0100, Malcolm <i.am.malcolm@_REMOVE_gmail.com> said:

> Jack Miller wrote:
>> Hi, all those far more knowledgeable than myself :P.
>>
>> I've got an athlon64 running on a gigabyte GAK-8NS Pro mobo (the rest
>> of the hardware is largely immaterial, GeForce MX 4k card, sata on the
>> motherboard and so on) . Now, amd64 being, uh, amd64, I want this
>> machine to be nice and fast - so gentoo is naturally my OS of choice
>> . The mobo has a Marvel 8001 1000baseT onboard nic, which the livecd
>> powers by skge, whiich is the module - yay - with the name of my nic in
>> it in make menuconfig, Marvel / Yukon / and so on. Great, I hear you
>> ask. what's wrong?
>>
>> Well....it doesn't work. The kernel on the livecd - 2005.0 - is r3, and
>> I've tried gentoo r10 and r9, as well as the latest vanilla kernel.
>> None of them drive my nic! It gives no error message, modprobes /
>> insmod's cleanly, and *appears* to work. I'm not even sure how to get
>> error output from it, but everything is fine - route - n and so on -
>> apart from the fact that <i>nothing actually happens</i>. I've set it
>> to get a dhcp address - it can't send the ARP request, and, despite all
>> the pretty lights flicking on my switches and the nic itself. Well,
>> glowing in the case of the nic.
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure if there is some big "WARNING: DO NOT ENABLE THIS
>> OR STUFF WILL BREAK" switch in the kernel that I've missed,
>> but...erm...I feel that way . I really have tried everything I can
>> think of. Which isn't a lot. Sk98 isn't in the vanilla kernel - but is
>> in the gentoo one - and that don't work either.
>>
>>
>> And don't mention anything about pci nics! :P.
>>
>> Thanks....
>>
> I had the same problem. I tried both of the kernel drivers and had the
> same results; the module will load and ifconfig -a will show that the
> card is there but it won't connect to squat.
>
> All you need to do is go here:
> http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect...02_driver.html
>
> Download those, run the provided install script and your all done. Oh!
> You need to have both of the syskonnect drives compiled as modules
> before you begin or the install script will stall.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Malcolm

Thank you! Very much!

I'll do that now....

And by the way, by "vanilla", I meant emerge vanilla-sources not emerge
gentoo-sources . But you probably knew that :P


Thanks!