[WBEL-users] nvidia nforce boards and integrated NIC

[Johnny Hughes]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 08:42 -0500, King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU) wrote:
> Anyone else using these boards? Specifically the one at home is a K7N2
> Delta2 / NVIDIA Nforce2 Ultra 400
> 
> The problem is the 2.4 kernel does not detect the NIC. Some research
> verified this.
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=233608&hi
> ghlight=nvidia+lan
> 
> It appears the 2.6 kernel has the ability to detect the NIC using the
> 'forcedeth' driver. For 2.4 kernels I am guessing I will need to download
> the new unified driver from NVIDIA
> 
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0283
> 
> Then have it rebuild for the 2.4 kernel. Also from reading i need to do this
> before installing the NVIDIA graphic drivers.
> 
> Has anyone on the list done this yet? If so care to share what you did and
> any 'gotchas' that could save some time?
> 
> 
> I would rather stay with WBEL (although I run an FC2 workstation i would
> still prefer WBEL for the server) even though FC2 has the forcedeth driver
> in the 2.6 kernel already. 
> 
Greg,

I downloaded the kernel SRPM for RHEL 4 Beta
(kernel-2.6.8-1.528.2.10.src.rpm).  If it compiles and runs on WBEL 3
then I will provide a link to download it on my website.


> 
> thanks
> 
> Greg King
> LMIT

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