[plug] help needed - networking

[meyerri]

---- Original Message ----
From: shannon.carver at gmail.com
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] help needed - networking
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:54:18 +0800

>I think he's using SUSE 10.1.

Yep.
>
>Seems strange that it would be working fine, and then stop working
>after
>that. 

Looking back on it now, I think I ran "Smart update" after getting
the system up. (Sorta like apt-get update). I can't remember whether
it worked after that or not.

 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.

I'll look for that.
>
>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.

Thanks.
>
>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.

I'll take a look.

Thanks for the pointers - I'll have a look at that.
>
>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>
>> 
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