[64studio-devel] "Bootstrapping" an nforce-based machine on 64 Studio

[Ian Cote]

I have one of those awful nforce nics myself, and one thing that caught
me was that the built in NIC (there's only the one port on the mobo) was
grabbing eth1 rather than the expected eth0.  eth0 seems to exist as far
as the driver is concerned, but the actual port seems to be wired to
eth1.  Try going into the network settings and disabling the eth0 and
configuring eth1 and see how that does you.

And yeah, they are weird.  On boot, I see eth1 going up and down while
trying to get a dhcp address.  This little race condition sometimes
holds things up until it gets an IP and then it works fine. 

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 15:40 +0000, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
> 
> > I'm looking to install some extra packages, but I'm having trouble
> > getting online with my awful nforce NIC.
> 
> Quickest (and maybe best) solution - put in a PCI network card, even a 
> $5 RTL8139 card. Even when they work out of the box, I've found on-board 
> network cards often grab a higher priority interrupt than the audio 
> interface, which is obviously a good idea for a server, but not so great 
> for an audio workstation.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Daniel
> 
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