[plug] help needed - networking

[Richard Meyer]

Hi all,

I have a new computer - an Athlon AM2 processor on an MSI K9N Neo
motherboard. Everything is built into this board, including sound and
network connection.

I partitioned the drive, and installed XP (I need it to work with), and
then installed SUSE 10.1 as well (32 bit).

The network was accessible from both OSs, at the time. 

Suddenly the network is not accessible via Linux - it still works
properly under XP.

Trying to ping anything beyond the network card is hopeless - other
computers on the network don't see it either.

/sbin/ifconfig looks ok, there's a hardware address, a TCP/IP address
(static), and other info. After trying to ping in AND out, I see that
the RX packets DOES go up (no errors) - the RX bytes also goes up, but
on the transmit side it shows "TX packets: 0 dropped: 459"

The MTU is the same on both machines, and the "txqueuelen" as well.

The network "card" is some sort of Nvidia (says MCP55) and dmesg shows
that it tried to load a "forcedeth nForce ethernet driver 0.49" 


A Google sent me to a couple of pages which pointed me at a new driver
(http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_amd64_1.0-0283.html).

Does anybody have personal experience with this driver? Any other ideas?

Thanks
RM
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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>