[WBEL-users] nvidia nforce boards and integrated NIC

[Alexandre Aufrere]

Hi,


Well, finally i packaged the forcedeth driver myself, and it works ! 
Well, probably there are still some quirks and bugs (i didn't test the 
version number i choosed for instance), but it should be a very good basis.

So, if someone would agree to take care of this package in a repository, 
that would be good, because it seems that Dag's and Matthias' website 
haven't already merged into RPMForge to give us all the modules we want 
for wb3 ;-)

Since then it could be interesting if people put the srpm on some website.

c u

Alex


Alexandre Aufrere wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I just browsed several other repositories...
> Did someone test those RPMS:
> http://atrpms.net/name/forcedeth/
> 
> The SRPM from RH9 should recompile easily on WBEL3. And this should be a
> better alternative, since forcedeth driver is GPL'ed.
> 
> I don't have access to the nForce2 box today, so i cannot test...
> 
> c u
> 
> Alex
> 
> Alexandre Aufrere wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I fixed and customized 274 drivers from NVIDIA for both NIC and audio. 
>> I also wrote a new specfile, so that the version number depends on the 
>> kernel version number: this allows to install and maintain easily one 
>> version for each kernel.
>>
>> If someone is interested i can post the SRPM here (well, i hope it is 
>> legal: i didn't read the NVIDIA license very carefully).
>> Actually, what would be even better for me is that these drivers are 
>> integrated by someone in a repository and kept in sync with WB3...
>>
>> Lastly, the forcedeth OSS driver for the NIC has been backported to 
>> 2.4, so there is still hope that in a future update it is put directly 
>> into the RHEL/WB 3 kernel.
>>
>> c u
>>
>> Alex
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