Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: Asus K8N-VM Motherboard Ethernet Problem | Date | Mon, 29 May 2006 17:46:01 +0100 |
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On Monday 29 May 2006 15:14, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:20:02PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > Five minutes of research and I found this: > > > > http://www.asus.com.tw/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=952&l1=3&l2=14&l3 > >=245 > > > > It indicates that the board, although using an nForce 410 chipset, does > > NOT use NVIDIA ethernet, but (quote) "Relatek RTL8201CL external PHY"; > > you're probably trying the wrong driver and this is the source of the > > problem. > > > > This info could be wrong, but I thought it might help. > > The linux driver is for the MAC, which is in the chipset. The PHY is > external, and it doens't particularly matter which one it is in general. > The driver almost never has to care. I know I don't have to tell the > pcnet32 driver that I am using a broadcom 5221 PHY with it. It works > just fine because the MAC is an AMD 972 which is one fo the chips the > pcnet32 driver operates.
Since this document reveals no information about such a MAC device, it is still unknown whether forcedeth is truly to blame. From the silence of the original poster I'm inclined to assume he's fixed the problem..
I was suspicious because in contra to the original post, it is NOT the case that Windows XP (even SP2) will automatically detect and support NVIDIA ethernet; a third party driver must be installed before the device is usable. Realtek chips, however, tend to work out of the box..
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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