Ethernet not detected

[arunvignesh]

Hi,

I have Installed CentOS5.2 in our server but ethernet card is not detected,

When i type the command #lspci in terminal it shows

Ethernet Controller: marvell technology Group Ltd . 88E8056 PCI-E Ethernet controller (rev 14)

[rokytnji]

Open terminal again and type: uname -r


This will show what kernel you are using.
Copy and paste into new post so we can see what kernel version you are using.

[arunvignesh]

2.6.18-92.el5

[rokytnji]

It seems to be a bug with your card and the kernel. Here are some links to show what I am talking about.

any solution for the sky2 driver for Marvell 8056 - LinuxQuestions.org

0002541: Driver sky2 lost support of Marvell 88E8056 Ethernet (rev 12) - CentOS Bug Tracker



nVidia 630i on Linux - nV News Forums

[rokytnji]

These instructions should load the driver.


This is from the RedHat bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=420961 [^]

You should be able to do the following:

# modprobe sky2
# echo "11ab 4364" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/sky2/new_id

This should get the driver to use your card.

Note however, that there are supposed to be issues of datacorruption in connection to gigabyte mainboards and this card.
So use at your own risk

[rokytnji]

The common thread here is that you need to use the sky 2 driver.