Enabling networking in CentOS 5.2 on my ASUS P6T Deluxe

Update : below stopped working after upgrading the kernel to version 2.6.18-92.1.22. Trying to find out why :-|

Update2 : okay I was too fast probably, seems to be working fine after a reboot :-)

The 2 onboard Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E ethernet on my P6T Deluxe weren’t autodetected by CentOS 5.2.

Got this workaround from the CentOS bugtracker :

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

It works! :-)

There’s a warning of data corruption on Gigabyte boards with this workaround, so better check first and do some more looking if you’re in that category.

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