Hi All,
In the last week I only had issues with my Opensuse 11.1 (after the last kernel update).
First was the sound not working after reboot so I managed to find a solution on these forums and updated alsa.
In the last two days my network card is not detected and not present into the dmesg and I can not started with “ifconfig eth0”.
As I do not have network I booted with a live CD so I don’t have too much info from the opensuse but I can say that the network card is an embeded nvidia card(Asus M3N78-EM with Geforce 8300).
Please help me solve it as without network I can not get any updates to fix my eth0.
Don’t you remember if you complied packages against your previous kernel to get the eth0 working?
lspci -v
should list the device and kernel driver in use, done from a su terminal
As a last resort you could download the previous kernel packages you had and install them manually. I mean use a different machine and save them to a flash drive. Then install them.
I managed to get more info from the computer:
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Ethernet (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82f2
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at fcf7c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
I/O ports at c880 [size=8]
Memory at fcf7f400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Memory at fcf7f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ Count=1/16 Enable-
Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
Kernel modules: forcedeth
and if I try to see if that module is inserted I find that is not.
If I try to insert it I get the following error:
FATAL: Error inserting forcedeth (/lib/modules/2.6.27.23-0.1-default/kernel/drivers/net/forcedeth.ko): Invalid module format
I’m running this version of kernel:
Linux some 2.6.27.23-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-05-26 17:02:05 -0400 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
And on a live cd I get the network working and the module looks like:
$ lsmod | grep forcedeth
forcedeth 61712 0
I don’t know if downloading the previous version of the kernel and copying that module will help but I really need some ideas is it’s impossible to use it without network and I do not want to install a separate network card.
Hi caf4926 and all,
The solutions from the HAL page didn’t work and the only fix was to recompile the forcedeth module and replace the one in the /lib/modules.
Like I said this network card worked perfectly until 2-3 days ago.
This was probably after the alsa update (to solve the sound issue).
I will not update to another kernel until I check for weeks that no issues show in the forums. >:(