I’m a relative newbie to Linux, so please bear with me.
I recently bought myself a linux box, everything seems to work fine except for the Network controller which I cannot get to connect. The motherboard is an ECS GF7100-MT. This seems to come with an NForce card from what I can tell, but despite YaST detecting it when I run Hardware Information, trying to connect it using forcedeth or any other driver fails, and it just comes up as Not Connected.
In the end I gave up, thinking that it must be something to do with the fact that its an onboard card rather than a PCI one. So I bought myself a D-Link DFE-528TX PCI card which is advertised on this site as being compatable with Suse 10.0 (I am using 10.2). Having plugged it in to an available PCI slot. I now find that I cannot detect this in Hardware Information and it wont connect using the indicated driver.
I have tried disabling the onboard LAN in case this made any difference, but as I expected it didn’t.
“Cannot connect” means to the internet or local network? Are your network settings okay (IP, Gateway, DNS)?
I’d say forget the hardware detection for the moment and search for “eth0” in the /dev folder. If it’s there, something’s wrong with your network settings.
Just a question aside, why are you using openSUSE 10.2 and not 11?
By Not Connecte3d I refer to the card itself, rather than the internet. When I configure the card in YaST and hit finish it comes back with
Ethernet … [Not Connected].
blah
I’ve set it up to
connect on cable connection.
Only just realised today that 11 was out. When I ordered it from the Linux Shop a couple of months ago they only had 10.2 on CD and 10.3 on DVD. I wanted it on CD because one of the machines I’m using to test hasn’t got a DVD player at the moment.
Updating to 11 would be good for security and hardware support… and some other things, of course, first and foremost for me was the faster package management
There’s a live CD available at the download site, you could download and burn it and install out of the live system. Would be good to test if the network card works with openSUSE 11…
Nothing eth-like in your /dev? Okay, then it’s beyond me You could check the lspci output… Open a terminal, su to root and type lspci. Then you could search for the lspci output for the card on the net, perhaps you’ll find a solution for your problem there. Or some real cracks drop by here and know what to do…
