Help with CentOS7 + D-Link DFE-520TX Ethernet PCI Adapter

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Help with CentOS7 + D-Link DFE-520TX Ethernet PCI Adapter

Post by BernardoLG » 2014/10/17 17:37:07

Greetings!
After reading in several posts about my nVidia nForce Ethernet adapter not working easily with the CentOS 7 (not easy for me, spent hours trying with no results), I ran out to the store and bought a D-Link DFE-520TX Ethernet PCI Adapter for my PC.
I need you to please point me in the right direction to learn how to install this network adapter since I have not found yet related info to do that.

Regards.

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Re: Help with CentOS7 + D-Link DFE-520TX Ethernet PCI Adapte

Post by TrevorH » 2014/10/17 19:41:26

The nvidia card works easily enough with CentOS 7 by downloading kmod-forcedeth from ELRepo and installing that.

You'd need to post the output from lspci -nn | grep -i net to find out about the status of the DLink card.
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Re: Help with CentOS7 + D-Link DFE-520TX Ethernet PCI Adapte

Post by BernardoLG » 2014/10/17 21:32:41

Thanks for the prompt answer!
Haven't been able to install repos (like the one you tell me about from ELRepo) since I haven't found a way to read files and I'm also having problems posting the result because:
- Can't mount my USB Flash Drive to create an output file since it won't recognize the partition table of the flash drive or something like that.
- Can't download repos off-line because I have no way to read it from CentOS.
Here is the result:

# lspci -nn | grep -i net
00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet [10de:03ef] (rev a2)
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III] [1106:3106] (rev 8b)

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Re: Help with CentOS7 + D-Link DFE-520TX Ethernet PCI Adapte

Post by TrevorH » 2014/10/17 21:39:14

You've picked another card that doesn't have a native driver. I'm not sure if ELRepo produce a kmod for that one either. The new one isn't even supported in CentOS 6 either!

Your best bet is just to download the kmod-forcedeth file itself - here's a link direct to the file http://elrepo.reloumirrors.net/elrepo/e ... x86_64.rpm

I'm not sure why your USB stick isn't recognised on your CentOS 7 system but maybe you can find another method to transfer that file over. If the stick has no useful content you could always repartition and reformat it on the CentOS 7 system itself and then use it on another system to copy the file on there.
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Re: Help with CentOS7 + D-Link DFE-520TX Ethernet PCI Adapte

Post by BernardoLG » 2014/10/17 21:45:01

Thanks again!, both for the prompt answer and for the help on it.
Will try to repartition and reformat the flash drive (with some live cd, because CentOS won't recognize ntfs and such), then I'll try to install the repo you just pointed me to.

Thanks, appreciate your help.

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Re: Help with CentOS7 + D-Link DFE-520TX Ethernet PCI Adapte

Post by BernardoLG » 2014/10/17 22:50:17

TrevorH, it's working just dandy!

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yum install kmod-forcedeth-0.64-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
Then restarted and it's online!
With the nVidia one, though.

Will try the new card too, eventually.

Thanks!

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Re: Help with CentOS7 + D-Link DFE-520TX Ethernet PCI Adapte

Post by TrevorH » 2014/10/17 23:17:50

I searched for teh PCI vendor:device id pair 1106:3306 through /lib/modules/3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64/modules.* and /lib/modules/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64/modules.* and it came up blank of both el6 and el7 so I think your new card is unsupported by either. I didn't check ELRepo for that one though. Otherwise, perhaps you can return it since the original is now working...
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Re: Help with CentOS7 + D-Link DFE-520TX Ethernet PCI Adapte

Post by BernardoLG » 2014/10/17 23:39:48

Oh...
Well, you just saved me from several hours trying to install it.

Keep doing such a great job!, will be around here for sure.

Regards.

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