installed nvidia - works - but now ethernet won't work!?

yowwww

as the title states, I installed nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx and then rebooted and was pleased to see the nvidia splash screen, but very disappoimted to see that my ethernet was no longer working. It was working perfectly until the nvidia install.

I have tried taking my module out of autoload and that didn't help, I tried restarting ethernet but it fails to bring it up, I tried searching this forum, but I didn't see anything helpful on this.

Does anyone have any idea on this?

This is basically the last thing I need to have working now and gentoo will be fully operational.

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:11 pm Post subject:

What happens if you modprobe your NIC manually.

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:16 pm Post subject:

nothing, it just goes to the next line and shows no output

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:20 pm Post subject:

also, I noticed when I emerged nvidia it said it might 'taint' my kernel. should I recompile it?

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:20 pm Post subject:

Does "lsmod" show your NIC module is loaded ?
Does "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart" work ?
Does "ifconfig -a" show eth0 with an IP address ?

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:24 pm Post subject:

nVidia will taint your kernel because their modules are not licensed under the GPL. The only thing you can do about that is complain to nVidia.

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:24 pm Post subject:

yes
no
no

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:39 pm Post subject:

Can you post the results of "cat /proc/interrupts" and "lspci"

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:39 pm Post subject:

ifconfig shows this:

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:44 pm Post subject:

lspci does show my ethernet card as usual.

and cat /proc/interrupts shows (abbreviated, there is a lot to type out so I am trying to get the relevant info):

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:59 pm Post subject:

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:09 pm Post subject:

ok, it might better for you to just ask me directly what info you want and then if I don't know you can tell me how to find it. I am somewhat new to gentoo, but not that new overall.

I use a via chipset and my card is the via-rhine.

I just recompiled my kernel and I am rebooting now, so I will see what happens.

I have my via-rhine module set on autoload (/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4) and I have my /etc/conf.d/net set up for dhcp as it was before with the same net address as I used. I will check a lot of the commands out when I have finished rebooting and such.

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:15 pm Post subject:

ok, i ran dmesg and it listed the card with no complaints whatsoever. it is on IRQ 11

this is weird.

when I run /sbin/ifconfig it lists everything as usual including eth0 but it doesn't seem to be able to get an ip address for it. I use a router and double checked my clients table to make sure ip address didn't change for some reason and sure enough it is stil the same. It is not my internet either cuz this other computer connected to the same router works fine.

and to think i was all excited at getting my nvidia drivers install and then i lose my internet :evil:

I hope there is a way to fix this. it makes no sense to me at all.

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:22 pm Post subject:

Is your video card also on IRQ 11 ?
Is either your video card or your NIC listed in /proc/interrupts ?

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:28 pm Post subject:

no, neither is listed.

how can i check to see what irq my video card uses?

I did dmesg|less but it didn't show my video card irq

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:30 pm Post subject:

It won't have an IRQ until after the module loads (modprobe nvidia)

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:36 pm Post subject:

well, it said that it was loading when I ran dmesg after I did modprobe nvidia but it didn't give an irq.

I did notice something interesting though in dmesg:

it gave an error saying that only one processor was found. It seems I may have compiled my kernel for support for two. How do I fix that? or is it necessary?

also, should I just add nvidia to my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 file?

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:50 pm Post subject:

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:53 pm Post subject:

I took it out and I am recompiling now, thanks for the clarity on that.

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:59 pm Post subject:

uh oh, without it, I am getting errors when recompiling, I must have missed something that should have also been taken out, cuz i get this:

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject:

Usually major changes (like SMP support) require a "make mrproper" before compiling will work again. Just backup your .config file, because "make mrproper" will wipe this out too.

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject:

should I take out "pre-emptive kernel" also.

how exactly do i back up my config file? ( I know how to do it via nano, but i am not sure which file it is)

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 9:26 pm Post subject:

yowwww · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 9:32 pm Post subject:

ok, sorry to be a pain, but I don't see a config file in that directory. It appears to be hidden as you have indicated with "." in front of it, but I really want to be sure about this.

I have these files listed in my /usr/src/linux directory:

COPYING
CREDITS
changelog.rmap
Documentation
MAINTAINERS
MAINTAINERS~
Makefile
Makefile~
Rules.make
arch
crypto
drivers
fs
grsecurity
include
init
ipc
kernel
kernel-config
lib
mm
net
patches.txt
scripts

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 9:42 pm Post subject:

You can list hidden files with "ls -a"

On another note, if you told me the exact model of your motherboard, I might be familiar with its quirks. One of my machines has an Abit AT7-MAX2 motherboard (KT400/VT8235 with onboard via-rhine), and this machine was quite tricky to setup properly.