On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:41 +0000, James Fidell wrote:
> John wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 14:55 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> >> John wrote:
> >>> <snip>
> >>> If you are trying to add it use the "system-config-network". I run
> >>> basically the same mother board on my home PC and it does work. (the
> >>> driver) GUI - System | Administration | Network | Hardware Tab | New.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> yeah....tried that till blue in the face. The device is just not being
> >> seen for some reason. I was able go boot fedora 8, do a chroot to
> >> centos and bring up the network, but it didn't stick. (chroot worked
> >> nice to do a yum update, tho).
> >>
> >> Will try a reinstall from scratch.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the suggestion.
> >>
> >>
> > BTW ASUS.com has a linux Driver for that board. They have one for mine.
> > Mine is a P4P800-E..
>
> There's a more recent driver available than the one on the Asus site.
> Google found it for me. Unfortunately I can't recall were I downloaded
> it from now.
>
> Unfortunately whilst it appears to work ok at 100Mb/s, I get a huge
> number of framing errors at 1000Mb/s. I've not tried enabling jumbo
> frames yet though.
>
> James
Since the errors @ 1000gbs have you tried the asus provided linux
driver?? BTW you do have gig e net cabability right? Switches? You can
try "ethtool eth0" and try to force gig connectivity. Or like you said
jumbo frames, but does your switching hardware support that?
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