Getting A7N8X to work with Mandy 9.1

TazLinux · 05-27-2003, 11:16 PM

I found this on the supported Hardware page of Mandrakelinux.com.

NForce 2 board with 1 NVidia Lan. NVidia NForce drivers required for the Lan (available in the boxed releases or for club members)

Requires to have acpi=off to be able to access to the Lan. The tested board was a standard one, not a Deluxe.

How do I accomplish those tasks?

jpbarto · 05-27-2003, 11:29 PM

Not quite sure I understand the question... however to turn off acpi you can either rebuild the kernel w/out acpi or in lilo.conf add this line to the image configuration section

append="acpi=off"

TazLinux · 05-28-2003, 09:32 AM

Any Idea where I would find the drivers?

jpbarto · 05-28-2003, 12:06 PM

if you're asking how to get lan working on a7n8x board I found this forum ... reportedly they got it working. let me know if it helps.

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4648

TazLinux · 05-28-2003, 01:13 PM

Does anyone know of an inexpensive nic card that works with the A7N8X mobo non-deluxe version on mandrake 9.1.

jpbarto · 05-28-2003, 01:48 PM

dlink is usually reasonably priced with linux drivers for their cards.

TazLinux · 05-28-2003, 02:47 PM

I want a specific one.

Plus this installer doesnt even see my linksys lne100tx card thats in my pci slots.

jpbarto · 05-28-2003, 02:48 PM

how many nics are you installing in your machine?

TazLinux · 05-28-2003, 02:50 PM

I just want to use 1 card. I don't want to use the onboard card in my machine. So only 1 card, that I will be installing.

I want it to be the linksys LNE100TX

jpbarto · 05-28-2003, 03:44 PM

it looks like the LNE100TX is supported by the tulip driver. Now I think there is a tulip driver that comes with the kernel but this linksys suggests you download the latest (they have a link to it) and compile it. it looks like all the instructions you'll need are on this page. good luck.

http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=25

TazLinux · 05-28-2003, 04:05 PM

It wont even see the card at all period.

jpbarto · 05-28-2003, 04:43 PM

what is output when you modprobe the tulip kernel module?

TazLinux · 05-28-2003, 04:44 PM

Excuse me, it sees the card but as a different card alltogether.

jpbarto · 05-28-2003, 05:14 PM

ok... can you post two things... the output of the command 'cat /proc/pci' (this will allow us to see just what chipsets exactly we have to work with.

and second what is output when you modprobe tulip?

TazLinux · 05-29-2003, 10:42 AM

Ok I disabled it in the bios.

But it sees the card as an ADMtek ADM983 Linksys Etherfast 10/100 Network/main interface

But its a Linksys LNE 100tx

I don't get it. I ever tried to cards, both were the LNE 100TX and neither were recognized as the LNE100tx.