I lost nvnet!

merlinBSD · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 9:01 am Post subject: I lost nvnet!

Hi all.
Yesterday morning I was playing with my biosand i had to load the defaults since my overclocking went wrong... Anyways since that moment nvnet wun work no more

I tried to have different option in the bios (apic off,...) but no go... It has been working perfectely for 10 months and now dead.. Its a bios issue because the network will not work even with the live cd. Fortunately i installed freebsd a few days ago and im able to use the network with no problem on that installation (nvnet jus been ported to freebsd). The nic shows up in ifconfig, and i can ping, but unable to do anything else (lynx--> "making http connection")in linux.And no its not completely dead, jus only for linux as im writting that online from the bsd installation.
Have anybody ever have that? I really wanna recover my gentoo installation... Most of my partitions are reiserfs and I cant access my data with freebsd..

TheCoop · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 9:50 am Post subject:

what happens when you try to load the nvnet kernel module? error msgs?
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merlinBSD · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:09 am Post subject:

hi
lemme try because i just did a kernel compile with the new GPLed nvnet

I grabbed it for nforcershq.com ... But for me its still do the same than nvnet.
little reboot+another kernel compile+testing and im back

merlinBSD · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:33 am Post subject:

the driver load just fine... no errors

i saw on my bios an option to set its mac adress, how do i do that?
tried without apm, acpi, with apm without acpi, with both.... I tried to disable a number of inbopard components such as game port, sound card... parallel port.... it jus will not work...
I even tried another driver, see above, but its just the same..
im so lost

TheCoop · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:56 am Post subject:

whats the error message when you load the module? also have a look through dmesg
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merlinBSD · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 1:27 pm Post subject:

well as i jus said i have no errors when i load the module

yep i did look at dmesg and my nic is recognised and given a IRQ
I think it may come from my epox 8rda+ mobo and 2.4.21 and 2.4.22 kernel .... I rade a few similar stories on nvidia forums from people with the same mobo.lemme try a 2.4.20 kernel...

merlinBSD · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 2:20 pm Post subject:

Ok i know a little bit more now

when i do dmesg in linux:
it tells me than the ethernat card is at 0xe400-0xe407 memory range

when i do ifconfig on linux (remember my nvnet module loads jus fine):
it tells me that the ethernet memory address is 0x1000 (so its why it doesnt work isnt it?)

and on freebsd it tellms me the good adress in ifconfig nv0 : 0xe400-oxe407

:?:

What to do now?