Using the excellent guides on this site, I downloaded and installed the driver for my NVidia graphics card with no problem. This involved rebuilding the kernel (that part was done by the nvidia install script).

It seems to have broken my network though. Now when I boot, I get the message "localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed"

Any idea how to figure out what went wrong? I installed the driver by following the instructions in this message...

//linuxquestions.org/questions/history/121433

You did install the graphics package and NOT the NForce drivers, right? In other words, the filename of the latest drivers package is "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run". If that's not the name of the file then you've got the wrong one.

Yes, that's what I installed. And the video driver is working perfectly now. It's just the network that's not working.

And the kernel source that I installed was kernel-source-2.4.22-10mdk.i586.rpm

Could you post the output of lspci -v as root? Also, the output of lsmod and ifconfig?

Here you go. Thanks for taking the time to help. I'm learning something here

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 2.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: cde00000-cfefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: c5b00000-cdcfffff

00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a14
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at cfffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a14
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 12
Memory at cffff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 128
I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a14
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
I/O ports at d800 [size=64]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90)
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a14
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
Memory at cfffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at cffc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti 200] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 2861
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 5
Memory at ce000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at cdc80000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at cfef0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
isofs 28148 1 (autoclean)
udf 88736 0 (autoclean)
ide-floppy 16128 0 (autoclean)
ide-tape 48816 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 25544 1 (autoclean)
lp 8160 0 (autoclean)
parport 34472 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
agpgart 48292 3 (autoclean)
nvidia 2126440 6 (autoclean)
snd-seq-oss 32000 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 6080 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 42544 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss 43652 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 14200 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-intel8x0 22020 0
snd-pcm 79588 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 18436 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 45720 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart 4704 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 17760 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd-page-alloc 9044 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
snd 41380 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 6340 0 [snd]
nfsd 75280 0 (autoclean)
af_packet 14856 2 (autoclean)
sr_mod 19384 2 (autoclean)
floppy 55932 0
sis900 15244 1 (autoclean)
usbmouse 2936 0 (unused)
keybdev 2756 0 (unused)
mousedev 5428 1
hid 24164 0 (unused)
input 5696 0 [usbmouse keybdev mousedev hid]
nls_iso8859-1 3484 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp850 4284 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11820 1 (autoclean)
fat 38040 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount 84032 1 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33956 0
cdrom 32608 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 11376 1
scsi_mod 106176 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
usb-ohci 21080 0 (unused)
usbcore 74988 1 [usbmouse hid usb-ohci]
rtc 9004 0 (autoclean)
ext3 60048 2
jbd 39264 2 [ext3]
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:95:BF:6E:78
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:392 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:52855 (51.6 Kb) TX bytes:2646 (2.5 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd400

eth0:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:95:BF:6E:78
inet addr:127.255.255.255 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:94 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:94 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6172 (6.0 Kb) TX bytes:6172 (6.0 Kb)

Do you have a DHCP server or are all you IPs static?

Could you do an ifconfig eth0 down and then an ifconfig eth0 up. See if you get any errors. You have the correct module loaded (sis900) so it should work.

Rebooting my router fixed it. Doh!

Funny the other PC hooked into that router didn't have a problem. Also funny that it was working just before installing the nvidia driver.

Works now though , thanks for the help