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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT ausreg.com>]

Hi Sindi,

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:27:07 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:

>>   Pity !   I am still trying to find out what module(s) I can use to
>> get either BL3 or BL2 to fire up the unknown ethernet on the motherboard
>> of my new machine. It is a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 with a nForce4-4X chipset.
>> Newer distros (SW 10, Knoppix 5, Suse 10, Ubuntu) all take it in their
>> stride, but neither BL3 or DOS can even spot the bloody thing !


> I gave up on a recent onboard ethernet chip and put in a PCI card.

   I may end up doing the same if it becomes important enough.

> A Polish forum suggests that you have a CICADA8210 Gigabit LAN by nforce
> which requires module forcedeth.

    Aha !!   That rings a bell with what I see in the /var/log/messages
of SW10 on that machine.

>  Not available in kernel 2.2 source code.

   Well, there's a surprise.  Not !

> I found something about a backport/patch for 2.4.24 and it should work in
> kernel 2.4.26.

> If you don't mind switching to my kernel 2.4.31 I could try to compile it
> for you.  If you have a SW 10 CD you could compile your own kernel and
> modules.

   Slackware 10 has no problem with this motherboard, but thanks for the
offer.  All things considered, I will bung in a PCI card when it become
important enough. I have a couple of spares here - a 3com and an old
realtek.

Regards,
         Ron



Ron Clarke
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