Help With Installing Marvell NIC

Forum: Networking
Topic: Help With Installing Marvell NIC
started by: pickle965

Posted by pickle965 on July 11 2005,06:32

DSL doesn't support my NIC out of the box, so I downloaded the drivers off the Marvell website and tried installing them. I realized in the txt file it says something about needing a compiler...

Code Sample

2 Required Files and Tools
===========================

To install the sk98lin driver the following files
and tools on your Linux system are required:

- Linux kernel source available in directory /usr/src/linux

- Compiler tools (e.g. gcc)
***

What compiler do I use and where can I get it? I'm completely new to Linux so I'm not up on this compiling jazz.

Thanks.

Posted by cbagger01 on July 11 2005,16:35

the sk98lin driver is already there.

does:

sudo modprobe sk98lin
sudo netcardconfig

work?

Posted by pickle965 on July 11 2005,19:48

Didn't seem to work. I typed in the command and this came up:

Regardless, thanks for your help, any other suggestions? Thanks.

EDIT: Apparently, this guy was having the same problems - < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=yukon. > Doesn't seem like he got any help either

Posted by cbagger01 on July 12 2005,03:32

If this is an ISA nic card, you may be able to get it to be recognized if you provide more information like:

modprobe sk98lin irq=9 io=330

otherwise, if it is a PCI card, these resources should be autodetected.

Posted by pickle965 on July 12 2005,18:25

It's an integrated Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit NIC. DSL isn't autodetecting it at all.

Posted by cbagger01 on July 13 2005,03:39

My only other suggestion is that maybe this card's PCI ID is not recognized by the current DSL driver.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to add support for your card's PCI ID without a recompile.

There is probably a PCI ID text file located somewhere inside DSL and it might be possible to associate this driver with the PCI ID number that is produced when you type the

lspci -v

command.