[Clfs-support] Fwd: clfs -x64 net-interface problem

[b-vol]

Following the posting below,  I did some research, the netdevice is a 
- Marvel 88E1116  gigabit controller.    It is  not in kernel versions  
2.6.23.13/14.     Gentoo  folks  however  seems to have managed to get it 
working.  It is certainly working on suse10.3.  

If one was able to  fetch  even a    binary  can  someone advise if   devices 
attached to  the pci bus can  be  enabled  via drivers dumped  
in  /lib/firmware (as it is with usb devices)?
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Subject: clfs -x64 net-interface problem
Date: Tuesday 22 January 2008
From: b-vol <bvl at btconnect.com>
To: CLFS Support <clfs-support at lists.cross-lfs.org>

Greetings,

I am having   difficulty with the workings of a network interface on a clfs  
(AMD-64)  64-bit-only  setup.

The board is  by Gigabyte  based on the nforce 6100/nforce   430 chip-sets.

on booting the following is obtained


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/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d/S80localnet: line 22 ip:command not found
/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d/S80localnet: line 23 ip:command not found

/etc/rc.d/network-devices/ifup: line 72 ip: command notfound
Interface eth0  does'nt exist
########

after login:  ifconfig eth0 yields:

link encap:Ethernet  Hwaddr:  48-bitnumber (MAC address)
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU: 1500
txqueuelen: 1000

in otherwords the MAC adddress is recognised but the device is disabled.I have 
enabled all the obvious drivers 100 Mbit and100 Mbit   ethernet devices in 
the kernel configuration.

The  host( for building the clfs) was suse10.3 and there the net interface is 
seen as gigabyte mcp50. and it seems to work OK.

suggestions welcomed

sincerely
bv

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