CentOS - Dec 2008 - 5.2 driver for Marvell Yukon 88E8042 PCI-E Fast Ethernet controller

Hello,

I'm trying to install CentOS 5.2 on an HP 6730s notebook.

All's going well except for one little item -- the networking. Never 
thought I'd have trouble with an Ethernet adapter, so I didn't even 
check before buying this machine; it was cheap.

The adapter is a Marvell Yukon 88E8042 PCI-E Fast Ethernet controller. I 
can't find a Linux driver for it except one that appears to require me 
to recompile a custom kernel. I find it on the Marvell website:

http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do

It looks like I'll have to recompile the kernel to get this installed. 
Having read the warnings on the CentOS Wiki, I figured I should ask 
before building my own kernel for the first time.

Do I have other options?

Thanks!

Kurt Hansen
khansen at charityweb.net

This is handled by the sky driver I believe although support for it was 
removed recently.


Kurt Hansen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install CentOS 5.2 on an HP 6730s notebook.
>
> All's going well except for one little item -- the networking. Never 
> thought I'd have trouble with an Ethernet adapter, so I didn't even
> check before buying this machine; it was cheap.
>
> The adapter is a Marvell Yukon 88E8042 PCI-E Fast Ethernet controller. I 
> can't find a Linux driver for it except one that appears to require me 
> to recompile a custom kernel. I find it on the Marvell website:
>
> http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do
>
> It looks like I'll have to recompile the kernel to get this installed. 
> Having read the warnings on the CentOS Wiki, I figured I should ask 
> before building my own kernel for the first time.
>
> Do I have other options?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kurt Hansen
> khansen at charityweb.net
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>

>I can't find a Linux driver for it except one that appears to require me
>to recompile a custom kernel. I find it on the Marvell website:
>
>http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do
No, you make a module with that downlaod. I also have the unfortunate luck
to have a few systems with various Marvell nics and they aren't as good as
Intel IMHO.

It's pretty simple, check the readme out.

jlc

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Vnpenguin <vnpenguin at vnoss.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> If the 88E8042 shares the same driver as 88E8056, check out this forum
thread:
>>
>>
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=12895&forum=40
>>
>> Scroll down to note #5 and get the kABI tracking kmod-sk98lin package.
>>  There will be no need to rebuild the driver for each kernel update.
>
> Yes, the driver sk98lin works fine for me, under 5.2
Thank you for the note.  Then, the OP can go directly to:

http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/sk98lin/

and install the driver from there (thanks to Alan for building them).
These kmods are not kernel version specific, so will survive kernel
updates.

Akemi / toracat

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:12:01AM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>
>> >> http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/sk98lin/
>
>> Yes, Alan wanted to reach as many users as we can , so I helped a bit
>> with spreading the words.  I looked at my web log and was astonished
>> by the number of visitors and downloads.
>
> Does this module work with CentOS 4.7?  The binary RPM appears to put it
into
> a different tree
>  /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5
>  /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra
>  /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra/sk98lin
>  /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra/sk98lin/sk98lin.ko
No, the binary is for CentOS-5 only.  I mentioned this somewhere but
if you did not see it, I apologize for not making it clear in this
thread.

Alan is now working on providing the CentOS-4 version of the same
driver.  Give him (us) a bit of time.  I will make an announcement
when it is finally ready.

Alan, I think we need to create subdirectories like SRPMS, i386 and
x86_64 on the server.

Akemi