P35 chipset issues on install..

Shelnutt2 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 122

Hey guys, having a bit of an issue here.

My NIC for my Gigabyte P35-DS3R is the rtl8168. For some reason I can't seem to get the NIC ot work on the livecd's or the min install cd. The card is detected, but no IP/mac addy is detected. If I manually give it all the data, I still can't access the web to get the tarballs. I tried using "net-setup eth0", but that did nothing. I have this same issue with Debian and ubuntu.

The Gentoo 2006.1 cd doesn't boot, so I am stuck with 2007. The 2007 live cd works fine, minus the NIC. I went to install it just based of the tarball on the cd and (with the CLI installer) the install locked up on copying the tarball, #50, python. It spit out the error, "/mnt/gentoo/passwd.so" is not available..

I managed to get ubuntu installed correctly, minus the NIC. But after it was installed, I reboot into windows and download the drivers for my NIC, saved it to my Fat32 partition and went back into ubuntu. Copied the drivers over and installed in the way the readme told me too. When I was done, the drivers showed up in "lsmod". But no network. Still couldn't access anything..

NIC works fine in windows though..

So I need to get the NIC working, and can someone tell me how to fix the error I got with the live cd installer?
I'm trying to run the AMD64 version.

Thanks

nixnut · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:46 am Post subject:

I'm afraid you'll need to do a networkless install and install the r1000 driver afterwards.
There are quite a bit of threads about your nic, so give the forums search feature a try.

No idea about the installer error though. I've never used the installer myself.
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Shelnutt2 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 122

AgentMat · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 161

Have you ever run windows on that machine ? The windows driver for that NIC puts the NIC into some kind of sleep mode and the linux driver is unable to wake the card properly (you see the card but can't get anything of it). If you are in this situation you have to go into the windows driver property screen and change the setting for the wake option (I don't remember the exact name but it should be the last one in the list). After a reboot it just works

(edit : I have a P35 DQ6 board, I assume it s the same NIC that you have)