Manx and Adam, This looks like the bug I am having. I tried Manx's solution but found that if I added the acpi=off to the memu.lst grub config file it solved the problem and my tyan systems all work fine now. Robert On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 11:42 PM, Manx Biaggi wrote:

Nope but there are new 8.2 drivers on the Nvidea site now, i had the same problem with my Abit K7F-S and resorted to putting a Realtek 8139 based NIC in for the time being.

Rob

----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Kimball" <AKimball@kaptechwest.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 12:25 AM Subject: [SLE] Asus A7N8X onboard NICs and 8.2

I know I must be missing something. For a fairly long term Linux user, I'm getting deeply frustrated. I bought this board thinking it had all of the cool features I needed, it does - but apparently it sucks for Linux.

I've installed 8.2 and most everything is cool, except for the NICS, which I absolutely can not get running.

Of course, I have downloaded the ASUS/Nvidia Linux drivers (suse 8.1, I believe) and installed them (rpm) - no go. Next, the src rpm, wouldn't build, tons of complaints. So, I'm stuck. I've never recompiled a kernel (so maybe I am a newbie, but never had to).. has anyone managed to get this mobo to run on 8.2 with at least one of the two nics (asus nvidia or the 3com). If it is simple, I've screwed up somewhere, if it is complex (i.e. kernel rebuild), I wouldn't know how to do it - so please tailor your response for me (please!). This is my home machine for remote working, and the longer it takes to get the a nic running, the more I sit in the damn office.

Much, much thanks and gratitude for anyone taking this question on. -Adam Kimball Oakland, CA

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On Wednesday 30 April 2003 12:31 pm, Linux World 999 wrote:

Of course, I have downloaded the ASUS/Nvidia Linux drivers (suse 8.1, I believe) and installed them (rpm) - no go. Next, the src rpm, wouldn't build, tons of complaints. So, I'm stuck. I've never recompiled a kernel (so maybe I am a newbie, but never had to).. has anyone managed to get this mobo to run on 8.2 with at least one of the two nics (asus nvidia or the 3com).

Yes, but it was less easy than with 8.1, which worked first time. The rpm will not work with 8.2 - you have to compile the driver anew. You could try the following, which worked on the A7N-266-VM: Ensure that packages make, gcc,binutils,glibc-devel and kernel-source are installed - on a default install, all but the last should be. Download NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0248.tar.gz from the nVidia site, untar it, and change into the resulting nforce dir. Open a terminal and su to root. Run the following: pushd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig make dep popd [Aside: can anyone give me some info on pushd and popd - I assume that they allow you temporarily to jump into and out of the target dir?] Then run: make This will attempt to make nvnet and nvaudio. On my install, nvnet went OK, but on nvaudio there was a message: Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] I chose the default no, because audio was already working fine on the default install; this gave a message: Apply anyway? [n] Again I chose the default no, and got the message: Skipping patch. 2 out of 2 hunks ignored <snip> and the nvaudio make then fails. (Perhaps when I have time on my hands I will go over this again and build it too, but why bother when sound is alraeady fine?) Next run: make install nvnet.o is installed in /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/kernel/drivers/net; nvaudio is ignored. Run: depmod -a and then: modprobe nvnet you should get a message that the non-GPL license will taint the kernel, but nvnet will load, and shows if you run lsmod. Then run: ifup eth0 to bring up the interface, and you should be OK. This all assumes, of course, that you have edited modules.conf to uncomment the nForce chipset section, so you should have: alias eth0 nvnet alias sound-slot-1 nvaudio alias usb-interface usb-ohci Try fiddling around with this if it doesn't work first time, and as a consolation bear in mind that Windows users can have even worse problems, judging by some of the posts on the nVidia lists. The A7N-266-VM is a very good cheap board, and 8.2 runs like the clappers on it. HTH Kevin