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Topic: Incompatible with my motherboard's LAN?, DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb

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teitoku

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Posted: Sep. 29 2005,18:55

ifconfig turns up only a loopback; no NICs. What's the deal?

garcelj

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Posted: Sep. 29 2005,21:54

Stab in the dark...

Maybe the NIC drivers in DSL do not support the onboard LAN?

DFI's website shows the onbard LAN chipset as this:

LAN
# Marvell 88E1111 GbE PHY
# 10/100/1000BASE-T IEEE 802.3 compliant

Does any else have more information?
Is there a linux driver for the Marvel chipset that can be loaded after the system is up and running?

After a quick Google search this link was found and seems to shed a little more light on the issue.

teitoku

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Posted: Sep. 30 2005,15:48

That looks helpful, but I really don't know enough about linux to pull any info I could myself use from it.

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Posted: Oct. 01 2005,00:32

First, try "ifconfig -a"
This will show all interfaces, not just active ones.

Then try the sk98lin driver, or less likely, the forcedeth driver.

modprobe sk98lin
ifconfig -a
pump -i eth...

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