FC3 NForce4 GA-K8N No USB No second GigE

[wilbur.harvey]

Does anyone know how to get the USB ports or the second (Marvell) GigE port working?
Nforce4 chipset, Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9 MB
I have an Nvidia based Gigabyte PLX5300 graphics card and I was able to install the drivers for it without any problems. I also tried to install the NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0301 drivers but it didn't seem to help.

[Lauwenmark78]

The GA-K8N uses a 8053 Marvell Gigabit Ethernet controller. You can use the 8053 driver supplied by Asus if you want to get it working (for example here (http://www.asus.com.cn/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=22&l3_id=6&m_id=1&f_name=8053-others3.zip~zaqwedc)).

The NForce4 USB subsystem is an USB2-EHCI compatible one. The EHCI HCD driver of the standard Linux kernel should be able to manage it. Notice that the 2.6.10 kernel introduced a workaround for another USB chipset that conflicted with some NForce4 revisions, so if you don't manage to properly detect any USB peripheral connected, try with a 2.6.11 instead.

Hope this helps !

[chunkey]

Does anyone know how to get the USB ports

Probably temporary workaround: Go into your BIOS and look for something like USB Version (should be something like 2.0 + 1.1, or only 2.0) ... change it to 1.1

If this solves your problem, but you can't stay with 12MBits/s... then you should upgrade to the lastest 2.6.11 kernels...

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[wilbur.harvey]

I tried the trick with the USB 1.1 and it didn't work.
I compiled a new 2.6.11-5 kernel and the USB now works.
I still can't see the Marvell network. The driver module is there, but the chip doesn't seem to be detected.
Doing an LSPCI shows the chip however.

[Lauwenmark78]

I still can't see the Marvell network. The driver module is there, but the chip doesn't seem to be detected.
Doing an LSPCI shows the chip however.

With which driver ? Asus's one ? Any dmesg output when loading the module ?

[wilbur.harvey]

The driver which appears to be in the kernel
/lib/modules/2.6.11.5/kernel/drivers/net/sk98lin/sk98lin.ko

I don't find any reference to the marvell chip at all in dmesg

Here is my lspci listing

00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0050 (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 19)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV37GL [Quadro FX 330/GeForce PCX 5300] (rev a2)

After doing a modprobe sk98lin, here is the output of lsmod

Module Size Used by
nfsd 216064 9
exportfs 8640 1 nfsd
lockd 65704 2 nfsd
parport_pc 27780 0
lp 11016 0
parport 41032 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 25732 0
i2c_dev 10688 0
i2c_core 21952 1 i2c_dev
sunrpc 167748 19 nfsd,lockd
dm_mod 58388 0
video 13828 0
button 5136 0
battery 7684 0
ac 3588 0
nvidia 3925436 12
md5 4032 1
ipv6 267776 16
ohci_hcd 24712 0
ehci_hcd 35272 0
snd_intel8x0 33024 2
snd_ac97_codec 74040 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 53344 0
snd_mixer_oss 18880 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 108616 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 33988 1 snd_pcm
snd 56612 8 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10592 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 8516 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
sk98lin 174560 0
forcedeth 21824 0
ext3 127944 3
jbd 90072 1 ext3
raid0 6912 1
sata_nv 8004 6
libata 46404 1 sata_nv
sd_mod 17600 8
scsi_mod 138056 2 libata,sd_mod

But no, still no messages in dmesg

[Lauwenmark78]

Again, I suggest you to try the drivers supplied by Asus (see above for the URL). Although they're also the sk98lin stuff, they seem to be more recent: the version included in the 2.6.11 kernel is 6.23, while those supplied by Asus are 7.06.

[wilbur.harvey]

I was finally able to install the ASUS drivers and the second ethernet now works. Thank you very much.