[plug] help needed - networking

[meyerri]

SUSE 10.1 (like it says in the second paragraph)  ;-) (Not meant as
sarcasm)

---- Original Message ----
From: shayneo at bestflights.com.au
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] help needed - networking
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:21:49 +0800

>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>
>
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