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slithy
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 Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:10 am Post subject: Marvell 88E1111 with 2.6.15-gentoo [sorta solved] |
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Has anyone been able to gett the Marvell 88E1111 NIC to work with 2.6.15 and running at gigabit speeds? I tried to get the card up with skge, sky2, and sk98lin built as modules in the kernel and when I did /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start, on all three it said the eth0 didn't exist. I have been using this card just fine with the forcedeth driver, but would like to get it going with gigabit.
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slithy
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:20 am Post subject: |
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| So I with the forcedeth driver, I can get over 100mb speeds. So I guess my problem is sorta fixed, but I would like to get the 88e1111 working with a driver under the gigabit section in the kernel! |
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widan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:28 am Post subject: Re: Marvell 88E1111 with 2.6.15-gentoo [sorta solved] |
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| slithy wrote: | | Has anyone been able to gett the Marvell 88E1111 NIC to work with 2.6.15 and running at gigabit speeds? |
The 88E1111 is just the PHY chip. It's not a NIC by itself. So how you get the port it is connected to to work depends on what the "real" NIC is.
Since you got the NIC to work with forcedeth, I assume you have some kind of nForce chipset. In that case you have the correct driver. And even if it is in the 10/100 section, it will still handle gigabit speeds. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| Yes your are right it's not a NIC. I have the nForce4 chipset. I guess I am content with the forcedeth. |
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