[WBEL-users] nvidia nforce boards and integrated NIC
Alexandre Aufrere
loopkin@nikosoft.net
Mon, 04 Oct 2004 16:08:21 +0200
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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