Study Notes

There are some error messages displayed after installed Marvell Ethernet device in Linux operating system such as Red Hat AS 3.0 and Fedora 1.I issued the following command to check ethernet device’s driver information.

# dmesg | grep eth

Though errors were listed,the other things run very well.Using the ping command to test Marvell Ethernet device is ok,and I could find the right configuration of Marvell Ethernet in the GUI interface.It seems Marvell Ethernet device could work normally.But I still confused why these error messages were showed.

In the Marvell’s installation manual,it shows the matter I meet is caused by compiling in single processor statue.But in factor,there are two Xeon processors in my platform.Why and How?
I’ve called Intel’s support term,they did the installation test and then told me there are no error messages.Did I install the device in a wrong way?

First,I choose the second step to create a pitch during installation.Second,issue the following command:

# ./install.sh

When the driver’s compiling completed,

# modprobe sk98lin

In the GUI,System Setting – Network,I could find Marvell Ethernet device in the hardware list.Click the Device tip, and then click New button to create new profile.For example,Devices – New – Ethetnet Connection ,select Marvell Ethernet device and configure it.Finally,issue the checking command again:

# dmesg | grep eth0

I found no error messages were showed. and then I rebooted system.
In the Linux services,kutzu serviee was used to check and configure new hardware.In the first time rebooting after install Marvell Ethernet device,kutzu asked users to configure the new hardware.
Because I’ve installed Marvell Ethernet device,I choose “Do Nothing” .I issued “# dmesg | eth0”,everything is ok.how could this happen?I think maybe I usually choose “Configure the device” in the kutzu service,and the error messages exist.