On Monday 24 January 2005 11:47 pm, BandiPat wrote:
Hi All, Just curious about this and if there is a way to get it working. I'm putting together an Albatron Nvidia nforce2 chipset motherboard and can't seem to get the nic working. Nice fast setup though. Installed AthlonXP 3200+ Barton core cpu with WD Caviar 160GB SATA hard drive & 2 gigs of ram. Very surprising speed results from the SATA drive and nforce2 chipset!
SuSE 9.2 sets up the chipset nicely, SATA works wonderfully, USB, etc. but the nic just doesn't seem to want to come alive.
Things I've found in my research. Found a few emails in the archive about it, usually with the 2.4 kernel. Most suggest forgetting it and getting a good nic card to install. Some have tried the Nvidia drivers (stupid closed source stuff) and had no better luck. Other Google searches seem to produce reviews and other damning emails about closed source drivers and non-working nics. I couldn't find nvnet or whatever module is needed in the 2.6 kernel either, so wondering if anyone here can offer any insight into the problem or a remedy?
TIA, Lee =============
Since there didn't seem to be any answers coming for this problem, I just decided to work it out myself. ;o) For the sake of the archives and others possibly running into this problem, I'll pass along my solution to getting the nVidia nForce2 chipset nic working. Seems you still have to install nVidia's driver for Linux, available on their site, as there still is no "nvnet" module available in the kernel. Be sure to have the kernel-sources installed, so it can build the module/s. Once built and installed, it's a simple matter of editing /etc/modprobe.conf by removing the # from the line: alias eth0 nvnet to get things working. I suppose adding that line to the /etc/modprobe.conf.local file would be safer, since they recommend not disturbing the main file. Once the line is added, a simple setup in YaST2 for the network card will have you running on the nic! Lee -- --- KMail v1.7.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 "Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!"