[plug] help needed - networking

[Shannon Carver]

I think he's using SUSE 10.1.

Seems strange that it would be working fine, and then stop working after
that.  I'm not sure wether these boards have the same hardware as the
previous NForce4Ultra, but check to make sure that buggy Hardware firewall
is disabled, both in BIOS and Windows.

Some people have told me good things about it, but I've all types of
problems, including similar symptoms you've had (no network flow under
*nix), and corrupt downloads and failed connections in Windows.

If your board does have this feature, I think its called Nvidia Network
management in windows, and its got some kind of similar name in the bios as
well.

Check to see (though I doubt it), wether or not linux has loaded some
hardware firewall driver as well, this could be an issue, Though I'd doubt
it.

Regards

Shannon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Shayne O'Neill
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 July 2006 8:22 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: RE: [plug] help needed - networking
> 
> What flavor of linux are you using?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Richard Meyer
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 9:29 PM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: [plug] help needed - networking
> 
> 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
> --
> Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.org.au
> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.org.au
> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au