Missing network driver for Asus P7P55D LE

[LarsLin]

Hi,

I was wondering how I get about enabling the NIC on my Asus P7P55D LE motherboard in Fedora 11. During the installation process of Fedora 11 it seems as if the network card was not installed. I cannot find any drivers on Asus support site for Linux/Fedora.

How do I get it to work?

Thanks in advance!
Best regards
Lars

[glilytyp]

Grub woes after CentOS 5.4 install besides existing Fedora 11
Hi,

this or similar has probably been thousand times asked and answered here,
and for a moderately experienced Linux user like me
this really shouldn't have happened.

[LarsLin]

For a newbie user like me I really appreciate your answer ... not. Why do you think I am asking? Probably because I do not have the knowledge to distinguish between what I adequate steps and what are not in all the posts.

[stoggy]

ok ok... sheesh what a jerk. He has a problem and everyone is going to suffer for it. Grub woes wow he must know everything about linux... LOL


when your machine comes up check if the nic is already enabled. at a command line do:

ifconfig -a

read through the output and look for ethx. x will be something like 0, 1, 2, ...

the output will look like this:

[stoggy@localhost]$: ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4294 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4062 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2595350 (2.4 MiB) TX bytes:749492 (731.9 KiB)
Interrupt:27 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7316 (7.1 KiB) TX bytes:7316 (7.1 KiB)


if you see a eth0 like above it is working but maybe its not configured, different problem though. If all you have is lo then your card isn't loading, its probably just not configured though.

But either way run `ifconfig -a` and paste back the output.

[LarsLin]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply! :) I was about to try the commands that you have proposed below but upon login the keyboard and mouse was not working. This was not a problem the day I installed Fedora. That day I could log on without problem and the mouse and keyboard was working though not the network.

I have Windows 7 and Fedora installed on the machine. Windows 7 is working perfectly without any problems. Upon boot if I select to run Fedora and after that I press the escape key (i.e. keyboard is working during boot) I can see that everything is working except one thing but I cannot see which because the boot is too fast. I guess it is the network card that it is complaining about.

Can I make the boot process go a little bit slower or pause, so that I can see what is failing. Do you know why the keyboard and mouse is not working when X is started, but it works during boot process? Is there a simple solution to that so that I can get into the OS again? :)

Thanks in advance!
Best regards
Lars

[stoggy]

Upon boot if I select to run Fedora and after that I press the escape key

when you do this. escape key? can you edit the fedora option? If it is the grub menu highlight fedora and hit "e" then highlight the kernel line and hit "e" again. scroll to the end and add a 3, probably will need to add {"space"3} this will boot you into multiuser with no X.

try the commands there.

[LarsLin]

Hi,

I did not get FC11 to work and installed FC12 instead when it was released and now it works perfect. I do not know if it was something with my NIC and that it was not supported out of the box in FC11.

Best regards
Lars