No option for nVidia nforce network card in menuconfig for 2.6.8.1

martinp26 · 08-24-2004, 10:35 AM

Hello all, I am trying to build 2.6.8.1 for my Asus a7n8x motherboard and after going through the options in menuconfig compiled and installed my new shiny kernel (I currently use 2.6.3-7 that was installed with 10 Official). On going through the options I did not see one for the reverse engineered nVidia nforce network card (forcedeth) and obviously when I try and boot it hangs at the 'Bringing up network interface eth0'. Does anyone know why I now don't get this driver as an option, I did with 2.6.7 and do with 2.6.3.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Kind Regards
Martin

david_ross · 08-24-2004, 10:58 AM

It seems to be there for me (not that I use it):

Code:

[*] EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers
 < >   AMD PCnet32 PCI support
 < >   AMD 8111 (new PCI lance) support
 < >   Adaptec Starfire/DuraLAN support
 < >   Ansel Communications EISA 3200 support (EXPERIMENTAL)
 < >   Apricot Xen-II on board Ethernet
 < >   Broadcom 4400 ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)
 < >   Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)
 < >   CS89x0 support

You could always just complete the rest of your config then uncomment and set "CONFIG_FORCEDETH" to "y" or "m" in ".config".

martinp26 · 08-24-2004, 06:41 PM

Ok, I tried that and there was no '# CONFIG_FORCEDETH is not set' in my
.config to change it to 'CONFIG_FORCEDETH=y' so I added it anyways and
re-compiled. As I watched the compiler output it just skipped it again and
when I went back to my .config the line I had just added had gone!

If I do a 'make oldconfig' with my .config-2.6.3-7mdk as the base the
'reverse engineered nVidia' driver option appears but all the other options
are now back at default.

It will probably mean that I'll have to go back and make all those changes
again (it took me hours). I just hoped someone would have a fix for this
and / or that it might be a bug!?

The options are there in /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/drivers/net/Kconfig, but
for some reason I don't get it in my list when I 'make menuconfig'.

And one last 'silly' question. What is the 'affero' button for, is it like an
awards thing?

Cheers
MP

FlFF · 09-28-2004, 09:32 AM

Just struggling with this trouble for one hour or two,

Simply select "Code maturity level options > Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/driver"

And you'll see the right option in its habitual place

martinp26 · 09-28-2004, 11:14 AM

Thank you for the response F|FF, I overcame this by going through make menuconfig again and selecting all the settings I wanted and now have 2.6.8.1 installed and working brilliantly.

This is well worth noting though for when the next kernel becomes available, it's one of those 'got to have it' things, you know!

Regards
Martin