[ale] Trying to get a Marvell NIC to work

[James Taylor]

What kernel are you running?
I couldn't get the marvell chip in my Sony to work until I got a later kernel.  I use the sky2 module.
-jt



James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
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>>> On Sat, Sep 8, 2007 at  5:24 PM, in message
<C3088B3C.A48D%gcanter at speedfactory.net>, Greg Canter
<gcanter at speedfactory.net> wrote: 
> I have installed 64Studio (a Debian based multimedia distro) on a dual
> Opteron with an onboard Marvell 88E9001 gigabit NIC and it will not work.
> There are no lights on my switch.  All attempts to ping to and from the
> machine are negative.  I have replaced the CAT V cable.  It is a dual boot
> with Windows - where the NIC works flawlessly, so I know the NIC is
> operational, but just not with 64Studio.
> 
> I have tried to run the following without any success :
>     net-setup eth0
>     sk98lin
>     modprobe skge
>     ifconfig eth0 up
>     modprobe sk98lin
> 
> Running "lspci" gives me the following line:
>    03:03.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001
> Gigabit Ethernet Controller(rev 13)
> 
> Running lsmod gives me the following :
>     sk98lin
>     
> So it looks like the module is being loaded but nothing else is happening.
> 
> Running uname -a gives me :
>     Linux SATURN 2.6.17-1-multimedia-amd64-k8 #1 PREEMPT Wed Jul 19 11:28:38
> UTC 2006 x86_6 GNU/Linux
> 
> All of my research seems to point to this driver working ok with that
> kernel.  I have installed Suse on this pc before without any NIC problems.
> 
> Any clues, hints, advice warmly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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