Problem with Realtek 8211CL PHY

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joe2009
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Problem with Realtek 8211CL PHY

Post by joe2009 » 2009/02/24 23:29:30

Embedded network card (chip Realtek 8211CL) of my motherboard (ASUS M3N78-CM) not work under CentOS 5.2

Is there a patch to resolve this issue?

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Problem with Realtek 8211CL PHY

Post by AlanBartlett » 2009/02/25 00:23:54

Please post the lines output by the following two command that relate to your NIC:

[code]
[b]/sbin/lspci
/sbin/lspci -n[/b]
[/code]

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Re: Problem with Realtek 8211CL PHY

Post by joe2009 » 2009/02/25 17:47:27

Output of /sbin/lspci command:

00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 0751 (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 0753 (rev a2)
00:01.4 Ram memory: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 0568 (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 077b (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 077c (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 077d (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 077e (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 0759 (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 0774 (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 075a (rev a1)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 0760 (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 0569 (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 0778 (rev a1)
00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 075b (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00.18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:06.0 Class 0080: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISDN interface
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8200 (rev a2)


This is output of /sbinlspci -n command:

00:00.0 0500: 10de:0754 (rev a2)
00:01.0 0601: 10de:075c (rev a2)
00:01.1 0c05: 10de:0752 (rev a1)
00:01.2 0500: 10de:0751 (rev a1)
00:01.3 0b40: 10de:0753 (rev a2)
00:01.4 0500: 10de:0568 (rev a1)
00:02.0 0c03: 10de:077b (rev a1)
00:02.1 0c03: 10de:077c (rev a1)
00:04.0 0c03: 10de:077d (rev a1)
00:04.1 0c03: 10de:077e (rev a1)
00:06.0 0101: 10de:0759 (rev a1)
00:07.0 0403: 10de:0774 (rev a1)
00:08.0 0604: 10de:075a (rev a1)
00:09.0 0101: 10de:0ad0 (rev a2)
00:0a.0 0200: 10de:0760 (rev a2)
00:0b.0 0604: 10de:0569 (rev a1)
00:10.0 0604: 10de:0778 (rev a1)
00:12.0 0604: 10de:075b (rev a1)
00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100
00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101
00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102
00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103
01:06.0 0080: e159:0001
02:00.0 0300: 10de:0849 (rev a2)


Tanks a lot for your help.


P.S.
If were impossible to enable the enbedded NIC I could buy an additional net card, which is the chip (Realtek, Intel or other) sure supported by CentOS 5.2 ?

Sorry for my english :-(

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Re: Problem with Realtek 8211CL PHY

Post by AlanBartlett » 2009/02/25 18:22:29

[quote]Sorry for my english :-( [/quote]
Don't worry about that. We can understand you. :-)

[quote]
Output of /sbin/lspci command:

[i][/i]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation Unknow device 0760 (rev a2)
[i][/i]

This is output of /sbin/lspci -n command:

[i][/i]
00:0a.0 0200: 10de:0760 (rev a2)
[i][/i]
[/quote]
The above is all I need to see -- all the other lines are just confusing noise. ;-)

Translating those numbers (10de:0760) into the [i]#defines[/i] used by the kernel I see, quite clearly --

[code]
[b]PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA
PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NVENET_32[/b]
[/code]
The end result is that I believe that the appropriate kABI tracing kmod-forcedeth rpm package, which you can download from the [url=http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/CentOS-5/forcedeth/]forcedeth directory[/url], should enable you to use that NIC.

Please download, to removable media like an USB memory stick, the version of the [i]kmod-forcedeth[/i] package that matches your system architecture (32- or 64-bit) and kernel type (standard, xen or -- if 32-bit -- PAE). Verify the integrity of the downloaded package by comparing its [i]md5sum[/i] or [i]sha1sum[/i] with the published values.

Transfer that kmod package to your [i]CentOS[/i] system and, as [i]root[/i], install it with a [b]rpm -ivh kmod-forcedeth*.rpm[/b] command.

Ensure that you have a line reading [i]alias eth0 forcedeth[/i] in your [b]/etc/modprobe.conf[/b] file and then invoke [b]system-config-network[/b] to ensure that you have the minimum configured.

Now you could either execute a [b]service network start[/b] command or just reboot the system and test your network connection.

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Re: Problem with Realtek 8211CL PHY

Post by Bigtwin » 2014/07/11 02:51:57

sorry, wrong thread I posted my reply in...

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