CentOS - Dec 2007 - nForce 630i Chipset, unable to get integrated nic working

Hello everyone,

I've also posted this onto the Network support forums but figured I'd
shoot
it to the mailing list as well.

I recently purchased a ECS GF7100PVT-M motherboard and now I'm wishing
I'd
investigated driver support a little better before I did! I was able to get
Centos 5.1 XEN Kernel installed but have been having a helluva time getting
the on board NIC going. The MB is running a nForce 630i chipset and has the
nic card listed as a Realtek 8111B. I've downloaded what I believe to be the
latest Realtek drivers and if I do an lsmod I can see the r8168 module
present. I've tried adding the line alias eth0 r8168 to my
/etc/modprobe.conf file but it hasn't gotten me anywhere, I've also
tried
with Nvidia's forcedeth module to no avail.

Does anyone have some ideas of what I could try next? Do I need a newer
version of the forcedeth driver? Is this chipset not going to work with
Centos 5.1? Is it a Xen related issue?
lspci shows "Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 07dc
(rev a2)"

Any thoughts/pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

David
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David Levinger wrote on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:30:34 -0800:
> I've also tried with Nvidia's forcedeth module to no avail.
This driver is not from Nvidia! It's a back-engineered driver and
doesn't
necessarily support the latest hardware. Check the Nvidia site (not the 
Realtek site!) for the latest Linux drivers. You will have to recompile 
the kernel module with each updated kernel.
> Do I need a newer version of the forcedeth driver?
You could check their website if the latest version supports what the 
current Centos 5 version doesn't (yet).

Read the thread from Dec. 28 starting with MID 
<1779.10.1.1.17.1198860842.squirrel at www.arcoscom>?

Kai

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