forcedeth probs on nvidia mcp55 (asus crosshair)

[johanson]

Hi to all @ this forum,

I have a problem with my new Asus Crosshair MoBo.
My old Board was a Asus A8N-SLI, with a sk98lin and a forcedeth NIC onboard, both worked without any troubles.
But with my new borad, no one of the nics will work (both are NVIDIA-MCP55).
The Kernel (2.6.20-gentoo) loads the forcedeth module and recognizes two nics (eth0 and eth1).
But i don't be able to start my network. When i try to assign a IP to the eth0, i became the following message:

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device

It seems that the kernel doesn't know my NIC ???
When i start the latest livecd all nics work without any problems,...
Seems the same as here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-539199.html

Im also have the marvell-phy support compiled into kernel.
Need i anything else in the kernel ?

It is possible that this is a udev prob ?
Had i to change any gentoo-specific config files ?

I'm sorry, i can't post any logs at the moment because i'm at work, and i can't reach my pc @home ;o)

Thx for help
Johanson

[widan]

When you get back home, please post the relevant parts of dmesg, and also the output of "ifconfig -a".

[johanson]

Hey,

sorry for my late answer,...
I solved the problem today.
The problem was a very strange content in the "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules" file.
There was a mix of my old and the new NIC's, and the new one was mapped to eth3, though the
kernel writes the following out:

forcedeth: using HIGHDMA
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:8223 bound to 0000:00:10.0

but now it works,...

Thx widan