Hmm On Thursday 18 July 2002 19:19, babu walad wrote:
Hello,
About a month ago I posted a problem with the nVidia NIC in my Micron PC. I got pretty much no feedback from anyone...
Anyway, there is indeed an nForce driver on the nVidia web page with support for several flavors of Linux, SuSE and otherwise. I am running SuSE 8.0 and after installation of the driver, the NIC still does not work. I had it configured for DHCP client and it does not succeed in getting an IP address and times out going into background mode, ehatever that means since nothing changes afterwards.
This card works great with DHCP under windows so it is not a hardware problem. The driver is broke. It will work fine with a static IP. That is how I configured it though I have not tested access to the outside world. I can ssh to it from my other machine so it is "useable" for now.
I mean, okay , it sounds like a terrible inconvenience (the friend for whom I am doing this has one of those systems on which everything that can go wrong does) but how did you assign a static IP while using a router that assigns one with DHCP? Is it because it usually assigns the same one?
I submited a support request to SuSE but was told NIC configuration as beyond the basic configuration and I would have to PAY for that survice. It's probably cheaper to buy a new NIC in that case...
Hmm. I think there's another one on board the box already so maybe I should use that. Though since as in your case Windows is perfectly happy with the Nvidia one ...
I've also contacted nVidia support but received little help from them. All they told me is the SuSE driver was written BY SuSE and given to nVidia who posted it on their web page.
Hmmm.
Perhaps we should file a BUG report with SuSE and see if they post a new driver.
Any SuSE employee want to comment on the likelihood of this making a difference in the coming days for me, or whether I should give up after trying, as anders suggests, installing the driver (assuming my experience is as Babu's)? Thanks, Nick German Mobile: +49 173 384 6576 | UK Mobile: +44 781 592 5713 | US Mobile: +1 646 334 3649 *Currently in: Germany*