Any hope for VITESSE 8201 phy network support

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tcake
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Any hope for VITESSE 8201 phy network support

Post by tcake » 2014/08/16 23:06:06

After a basic install I have lost internet connection. It is a GA-K8NF-9 AMD Althlon motherboard with a built in VITESSE 8201 phy chip, (cicada phy?) for its internet connection. The motherboard manual lists it as 10/100/1000 Mbit but I assume it is not modern enough to support.

How do you go about finding out the mapping of network chipsets to drivers, and what drivers are available in the base install?

I don't see anything on ELRepo that looks promising, failing that is there a supported pci card recommendation?

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Re: Any hope for VITESSE 8201 phy network support

Post by TrevorH » 2014/08/16 23:51:40

Post the output of lspci -nn | grep -i net
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Re: Any hope for VITESSE 8201 phy network support

Post by tcake » 2014/08/17 00:32:37

lspci -nn|grep -i net

00:0a.0 Bridge [0680]: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller [10de:0057] (rev a2)

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Re: Any hope for VITESSE 8201 phy network support

Post by TrevorH » 2014/08/17 02:58:29

Google ELRepo and download and install kmod-forcedeth from there. You'll need to transfer it via usb stick or some non-network method.
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Re: Any hope for VITESSE 8201 phy network support

Post by tcake » 2014/08/17 05:06:27

Worked like a charm, thankyou!

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