Bug 120567

Summary: Nvidia MCP-04 ethernet not detected in installation
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Daniel Wolstenholme <daniel>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: mvidner
Version: RC 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: All   
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Description Daniel Wolstenholme 2005-10-06 02:23:54 UTC
I have a new Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Pro motherboard with the NVIDIA nForce 4 
chipset with the MCP-04 south bridge.  This chipset has a gigabit Ethernet 
port built-in, attached to a Marvell PHY.  When installing OpenSUSE 10.0 RC1 
from CDs, this ethernet adaptor is not auto-detected, and the system is not 
set up for it.  If I manually select the "sk98lin" device driver, it works as 
expected. 
 
Here's some lines from dmesg: 
NFORCE-MCP04: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0 
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable 
NFORCE-MCP04: chipset revision 162 
NFORCE-MCP04: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later 
NFORCE-MCP04: 0000:00:0f.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller 
 
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.35. 
 
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01458:e000 bound to 0000:00:0e.0 
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
Comment 1 Ladislav Slezák 2005-10-06 06:41:19 UTC
Please, attach output of 'hwinfo --netcard'
Comment 2 Daniel Wolstenholme 2005-10-06 07:10:22 UTC
Ok, here it is: 
 
27: PCI 0e.0: 0680 Bridge 
  [Created at pci.277] 
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_38 
  Unique ID: rBUF._nK_faGuTv5 
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0 
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:0e.0 
  Hardware Class: bridge 
  Model: "Giga-byte MCP04 Ethernet Controller" 
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" 
  Device: pci 0x0038 "MCP04 Ethernet Controller" 
  SubVendor: pci 0x1458 "Giga-byte Technology" 
  SubDevice: pci 0xe000 
  Revision: 0xa2 
  Driver: "forcedeth" 
  Device File: eth0 
  Memory Range: 0xd8003000-0xd8003fff (rw,non-prefetchable) 
  I/O Ports: 0xcc00-0xcc07 (rw) 
  IRQ: 193 (2328861 events) 
  HW Address: 00:14:85:0e:86:33 
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000038sv00001458sd0000E000bc06sc80i00" 
  Driver Info #0: 
    Driver Status: forcedeth is active 
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe forcedeth" 
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown 
 
Comment 3 Klaus Kämpf 2005-10-06 07:30:21 UTC
Hmm, hwinfo reports "forcedeth" for the device but is looks like "sk98lin" 
would be the right one (see comment #0) 
Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-10-06 09:52:49 UTC
The nforce 4 problems were (hopefully) fixed in rc4. You can verify that 
with the final 10.0, which should be available by now (or very soon) or 
with the already released 10.1 alpha.