download the latest driver from http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.23/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.23.zip 1) unzip NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.23.zip 2) cd NV_Linux_DRV_PKG_v1.23/SuSE10.2/rpm 3) rpm -Uvh nvlan-suse10.2-0.62-1.23.i586.rpm 4) cp /lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-default/kernel/drivers/net/forcedeth.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.5-default/kernel/drivers/net/ reboot 5) use Yast to configure, you will get this "Giga-byte Ethernet controller" at the network card configuration setting. Enjoy!!! Notes: assumed u download the NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.23 and your kernel is 2.6.18.8-0.5 (32bits), if you install 64bits OpenSuse10.2, then changed accordingly. Peter Sjoberg wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 18:36 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 23:42 -0400, Peter Sjoberg wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 19:34 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote:
I just recently bought the Gigabyte M61P-s3 motherboard. I have an x2 AMD processor running on it. I installed opensuse 10.2 on it and found out it will not recognize the ethernet Realtek RTL 8211 and Realtek ALC883 Codec chip (audio). Has anyone found a way to get them to work? or will I have to buy a LAN card and audio card for this computer as the simplest solution?
Are you sure about the mobo, I have Gigabyte M61P-S3 but the network/audio is MCP61, not realtek. In my case I had network issues, it seems that the driver/card disagree on the mac address order (fixed in latest upstream version of forcedeth) and then the driver takes a random ip throwing of suse network management. I had to modify the startup scripts and udev rules to set a fixed mac address (the correct one) to get it to work properly.
Did also find out that Gigabyte does support AM2 cpu but not virtualization so it doesn't work for what I was planning on using it to (unless I hack the bios my self). That act (and lack of response from support) put gigabyte on my blacklist.
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
That is what the documentation says. I am runnning read hat and it does report the same thing as you say.
Well, then I can only help you with the network side, newer tried the Audio (I use it as a server running xen with a few virtual guests).
The network driver that works is forcedeth It loaded automatically for me so I got eth0 configured properly the first round Next round it loaded again but I got a new MAC address for it and since suse network config is based on mac it became unconfigured next round, new mac and new config I checked on the logs, google etc and it seems like it's a bug so that the driver reads the mac address backwards, declare it invalid and creates a random mac for this device. The bug is fixed in upstream forcedeth (v0.57 and later I think) but even latest kernel 10.2 still doesn't include the fix (only 0.56) and just adding upstream forcedeth.c fails to compile so another solution is needed. What I did (that works): # dmesg |grep 'Invalid Mac address detected' 0000:00:07.0: Invalid Mac address detected: ad:42:92:4d:1a:00
This gives you the bus id and the reversed MAC Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules and change the rule for eth0 to say SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{device}=="0000:00:07.0", \ IMPORT="/lib/udev/rename_netiface %k eth0"
This way the rule is based on the bus id, not the mac=same eth every time.
In /etc/rc.d/boot.local I then put in a line to force the correct mac (reversed version of the "Invalid" one from above
ifconfig eth0 hw ether "00:1a:4d:92:42:ad" &>/dev/null || true
After this I configured the port with "yast lan" and now it works fine after every (re)boot.
Regarding the sound, as a test I did just try "yast sound" but got an error that "The kernel module snd-hda-intel for sound support could not be loaded." so I guess you need to find someone else to help you there.
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-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
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