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feco

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2005-02-04

Posts: 4

Problems with Marvel yukon gigabit ethernet

Hi!

I have a laptop with a Marvel yukon gigabit ethernet card, and I can't get it work.
I know that I have to download the driver from marvel etc., I compiled the driver, everything went fine, but it's not working. I filled rc.conf with DHCP and with static IP also.
I made it work with the similar procedure with different linuxes on this same laptop, so all the hardware components are good. The file /proc/net/sk98lin/eth0 exists which means (for me) that the driver is more or less running.
As I remember somtime in last summer, I've made it work, but I left archlinux for some reason (sorry :=()

I'm really would like to convert myself back to arch, but without working network I can't.

Thanks in advanace for any help
feco

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Problems with Marvel yukon gigabit ethernet

I tried this recently too and failed.  IIRC the kernel sk98lin didn't work, and I had to recompile an external driver.  I had it working at one point, failed this time, and just crammed another net card in there as my "fix".

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Beavis

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From: UK

Registered: 2005-01-01

Posts: 71

Re: Problems with Marvel yukon gigabit ethernet

Try the skge module instead of sk98lin maybe that one will work for you.

feco

Member

From: Hungary

Registered: 2005-02-04

Posts: 4

Re: Problems with Marvel yukon gigabit ethernet

Using module skge, it's a little bit better. When I'm pinging a host I see the transimitted bytes increasing (in ifconfig), while with sk98lin the transmitted bytes are always 0.
But the pings are still failing...

Thanks for your help.
Is there anything to try

PS. The sk98lin module is working fine on the same laptop with another distro

feco

Member

From: Hungary

Registered: 2005-02-04

Posts: 4

Re: Problems with Marvel yukon gigabit ethernet

Using skge module, the transmitted bytes are increasing only with the archck kernel, with the normal kernel the bytes are always 0.

scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: Problems with Marvel yukon gigabit ethernet

Strange... I also had this problem, but the compiled driver (from Marvell site) is working OK. Do you have another network interface present?

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feco

Member

From: Hungary

Registered: 2005-02-04

Posts: 4

Re: Problems with Marvel yukon gigabit ethernet

I have no other cards.
hmm, I have a FireWire interface which appears for ifconfig as sit0 (I think) but it is unused and unconfigured... I will try to look after it - if you think that it is worth to do.