Compatibility Issue between new kernels and motherboard asus f5gl?

pinkcameloy · 2012-04-10 19:19:39

I am trying to install arch on an ASUS X50GL (F5GL) and I have severe difficulties to configure network. I have tried several things I have read on the network but I cannot install network, neither with eth0 nor with wlan0.

If I lsmod | grep forcedeth, I can see that the module is loaded, however the led on my router on which the laptop is connected doesn t turn on. If I switch to windows everything is working perfect. I thought I cannot do it via network or something and I installed a core version but then I can t configure network either.

I received advice to update my bios to v222 and I did it but it brought nothing.

Does anybody have an idea what the problem might be?

Is there a known problem between asus x50gl and the new kernels that I should know of?
Can it be that it is impossible to install arch on my laptop?

ewaller · 2012-04-10 19:26:51

Could you post the output of lspci -nn (That is two n's, not m) and of ip link ??

If the output is too large (assuming you are off line):
Find your Network card in the lspci output, tell us the model, and provide the 32 bit hex number (in the output it looks like [xxxx:xxxx]) for that interface.
Does the interface show up in the ip output? Does it say anything like "NO-CARRIER" ?

pinkcameloy · 2012-04-10 19:42:18

00:0a:0 Ethernet controller [0200]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet [10de:0ab0] (rev b1)

This is the output requested...

pinkcameloy · 2012-04-10 21:40:32

1: lo: <LOOPBACK;UP;LOWER UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:23:54:6b:58:62 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.2.2/24 brd 192.168.2.255 scope global eth0

3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:22:43:50:bb:51 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Does this help?

ewaller · 2012-04-10 22:00:02

Okay, based on that, your driver seems to be there and you have an ETH0. It also claims there is no carrier.
I have to ask. Have you checked the cable? I know you said it works under Windows, but --- check the cable.

Have you (with root permissions) tried ip link eth0 set up ??
How about (with root permissions) dhcpcd eth0

pinkcameloy · 2012-04-10 22:05:47

ewaller wrote:

Okay, based on that, your driver seems to be there and you have an ETH0. It also claims there is no carrier.
I have to ask. Have you checked the cable? I know you said it works under Windows, but --- check the cable.
Have you (with root permissions) tried ip link eth0 set up ??
How about (with root permissions) dhcpcd eth0

I am pretty sure that my cable works

About ip link eth0 set up, it rejects it because it says object "eth0" is unknown
dhcpcd eth0 was timed out...

pinkcameloy · 2012-04-10 22:08:09

Some more information is that when I ping my ip...it works...

When I ping my router I get Destination Host Unreachable

and when I ping google I get unknown host...

ewaller · 2012-04-10 22:26:56

pinkcameloy wrote:

About ip link eth0 set up, it rejects it because it says object "eth0" is unknown

That is because I am a moron.

Try ip link set eth0 up

Edit: Why does that card have an address? Did you set a static address?

Last edited by ewaller (2012-04-10 22:28:25)

pinkcameloy · 2012-04-10 22:41:49

ewaller wrote:

pinkcameloy wrote:
About ip link eth0 set up, it rejects it because it says object "eth0" is unknown
That is because I am a moron.
Try ip link set eth0 up
Edit: Why does that card have an address? Did you set a static address?

I have set a static address because with dhcp I don t see any result

I have tried ip link set eth0 up and then down and then up again. I have also restarted network...

The result is always the same...

Gcool · 2012-04-11 08:45:13

Fairly odd that it displays the interface as having no carrier. Can you try the following and see if it has any result?

# rmmod forcedeth
# modprobe forcedeth msi=0 msix=0

pinkcameloy · 2012-04-11 13:46:57

Gcool wrote:

Fairly odd that it displays the interface as having no carrier. Can you try the following and see if it has any result?
# rmmod forcedeth
# modprobe forcedeth msi=0 msix=0

I have done it and funnily when I was trying to ping my ip then, I received network unreachable

ewaller · 2012-04-11 16:20:06

I am not optimistic. Until the NO-CARRIER issue is resolved, this is not going to work. I've done a shallow search on the forcedeth driver, and there is chatter about it not powering up the PHY, and that is is a PITA to coax it into working.

Can you install ethtool from extra? If so, I would like to see the output of ethtool eth0
Any messages from forcedeth in dmesg or /var/log/eveything.log ?

Edit: Please run ethtool with root permissions.

Last edited by ewaller (2012-04-11 16:23:08)

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Compatibility Issue between new kernels and motherboard asus f5gl?

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