[NTLUG:Discuss] Networking problem (was Invisible cursor)

[Douglas Scott]

On Thursday 12 October 2006 8:52 am, Wayne Walker wrote:
> read the man page for your video card driver.  Most of them have an
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> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:38:55AM -0500, Douglas Scott wrote:
> > I've got an unusual problem.  I just installed Suse 10.1 on a new
> > computer I just built and I can't see the cursor.  It's there.  Icons
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Thanks for the tip.  That worked.  Now I can finally look into the other big 
issue I have with the machine, namely the networking.  The machine duel boots 
into the other OS and networking, including DHCP, works fine there, so it's 
not a hardware issue.

The network card appears to be detected but DHCP could never get an address 
back from the server.  I finally gave up on that and went to a static 
address.  ifconfig shows I have the address.  Running status on the network 
service shows it is running.  And running route shows that routing is setup 
correctly.  However route takes it's time reporting this.  It seems to hang 
for about 20 seconds twice during the listing.  Once when it lists 
192.168.1.0 and once when it lists the default line.

Actually this is the 3rd install on this machine.  While waiting to download a 
copy of the Suse 10.1 64 DVD I installed Suse Enterprise Edition 10 and 
Fedora Core 5, both of which I had sitting around from magazines.  I noticed 
that both also had trouble with the network.

I had assumed that I needed to get a driver for the system.  The motherboard, 
is an Asus A8N-VM/CSM, which has an nVidia chipset.  The ethernet controller 
is an MCP51 and is built into the MB.  The MB came with a disk that includes 
Linux drivers on it, but running the program results in an error.  I checked 
the nVidia web site and they recommend Suse users should use Yast to upgrade.  
Of course that rather requires getting the network to work first.

The module that the network card should be using is forcedeth and this is 
present and lsmod shows that it is loaded.  

So I am out of ideas.  Any suggestions.

Doug