Re: [suse-amd64] SuSE 9.0 AMD64 - Hardware detection issues with Shuttle SN85G4?

Hi Vojtech,

------------Original Message------------ From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Andreas Jaeger Cc: dreadnought , suse-amd64@suse.com Date: Sun, Dec-7-2003 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] SuSE 9.0 AMD64 - Hardware detection issues with Shuttle SN85G4?

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:20:28PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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"dreadnought" writes:

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While working through the SuSE 9.0 AMD64 installation on my Shuttle SN85G4, I noticed the following oddities:

No network card was detected

The nvidia network card is binary only, you need to download it from nvidia...

Actually the nVidia Ethernet has been reverse engineered and now is available under the name "forcedeth". Unfortunately this was after 9.0 was released, so we could not include it.

Interesting! I installed (or at least think I installed) the nforce driver rpm for SuSE 9.0 off nvidia's website. As far as I can tell, nothing happened. I didn't get any errors, but didn't get any success messages. Maybe this is because the driver is 32-bit only? Any idea if I did anything bad by installing this rpm? Can I simply remove it and any damage I may have done with the package manager?

I don't expect the nVidia binary only ethernet drivers to work on a 64-bit system, since last time I checked, they were 32-bit only.

So, if you need to get the ethernet to work, go on the 'net (possibly with another network card, they're damn cheap anyway), search for 'forcedeth' patch for a 2.4 kernel, apply it to the SuSE kernel sources, compile, install ...

Excellent .. I will try this! I've never recompiled a kernel before. Are there any SuSE specific docs for this process I could check out?

Regarding the 3D, have you tried just ignoring the "unavailable" message and enabling it in SaX2 (YaST2's X setup tool)? It worked for me at least in one case.

No, haven't tried this. I'm very new to SuSE. I will try it it! Thanks for your help, Mark