Marvell Yukon 88E8050 PCI-E GigE support

[gboutwell]

I tried v2.19 on a Gateway 4300 series computer I have here. It wasn't able to recognize my Network card. I did some digging and apparently inaddition to the sk98lin and skge kernel modules, some Marvell Yukon 88E8050 NICs require the sky2 kernel module. I was able to boot an Ubuntu 6.06 Live CD and it was able to detect and load the sky2 module. It had an 2.5.15 based kernel. SysRescueCD v2.19 had a 2.6.16 (? - going from memory here) based kernel. Could we get an SysRescueCD with this module included? What would be need to 'remaster' my current CD, to include this module?

Thanks,
George

[DaRThLoRD]

I have the same problem, any ideas?

[gboutwell]

[quote="DaRThLoRD"]I have the same problem, any ideas?[/quote]

Nope, sorry. I was unable to (didn't have the time) remaster an sysrescueCD to include this module to see if it detects this NIC. But for others who are interested, I was able to use the Ubuntu Live CD that booted and auto-detected the NIC to get on the internet, d/l the partimage binary and run it in Ubuntu and make a image of the machine.

[admin]

Could you try SystemRescueCd-0.3 ? It has a recent 2.6.18 kernel, and it provides your kernel module (CONFIG_SKY2=m).
You can find the download link there: http://www.sysresccd.org/Beta
Hope it helps

[DaRThLoRD]

Thanks to both, gboutwell and fdupoux for your replies :D.

To fdupoux: I will be pleased to try the new SystemRescueCd-0.3. In a few hours i'll try it and post the results here.

By the way, I was looking the new packages list included in this version and noticed that it's also included "ndiswrapper", it is great! These days before I have been working on this utility in order to include it in a customized sysresccd and solve the Marvell Yukon problem, now, I can solve this problem with both ways (kernel module sky2 and window$ drivers with ndiswrapper :wink: ). I'll test them.

Thank you very much!

[DaRThLoRD]

I have tried the new sysresccd with good results.

After booting, I did a 'modprobe sky2', then 'ifconfig' and there it is: Marvell Yukon on eth0 :D. Thanks!!

I also have been testing 'ndiswrapper', installed the yk51x86 (.inf) windows driver with the command 'ndiswrapper -i yk51x86.inf', then a 'ndiwrapper -l' showed the driver correctly installed, but when I tried to load the ndiswrapper module, modprobe says that there isnt a kernel module named ndiswrapper :S.

[DaRThLoRD]

Ok...I know why I can't load ndiswrapper properly. For some reason, the kernel recompile from beta1 to beta2 made the ndiswrapper kernel module not to install correctly, I tested this module on sysresccd beta1 and a modprobe ndiswrapper worked fine, but on beta2, it says that cannot find that kernel module. So here there's another bug prepared to be solved in next release :P.

[admin]

That's right the modules were not recompiled with the new kernel in beta2. You can try beta3 soon that will solve this problem. I will release it soon. Thanks.