Suse 9.0 x86_64 and Asus SK8N

From: Kevin D. Kissell (deletethisspamtrapKevinK_at_paralogos.com)
Date: 12/12/03

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    Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:28:40 +0100

    I've got a shiny new Asus SK8N motherboard with a 2GHz Opteron processor.
    It's running Windows 2000 nicely on its primay boot partition, but I did
    want to
    try installing the 64-bit-capable Linux that SuSE has made available. I
    downloaded
    and burned the boot CD image, and it boots up fine, but it doesn't see the
    NIC.
    The Asus web site provides driver downloads for Linux, and one can see that
    it's the RTL8139, aka "8139too" driver is what they recommend. The SuSE
    boot CD does offer that driver module as an option to manually load, so I've
    tried loading it (as well as the other two 8139 variants which are
    included).
    The loading of the associated MII module succeeds, but the load of the
    driver
    module itself always fails. It *looks* like a generic driver module load
    failure
    message that is generated as a pop-up-and-vanish teal blue monologue box,
    but it disappears too quickly for me to be sure. I am then given a red
    failure
    notice dialogue box - game over. There is an opportunity to provide some
    load-time parameters to the driver module, and from searching the web here
    and there, I came up with some to try, such as "irq=XXX io=YYYY", where
    I've taken the information from the Windows 2000 hardware manager, but
    nothing has worked, and in any case, supposedly one is to leave the field
    blank.

    Has anyone out there had any success in loading SuSE 9.0 for x86-64 from
    off the net? Note that one cannot download CD images for a full install of
    SuSE 9.0 - the only free path is via a networked install.

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