Slackware 10 + Nforce2 Onboard LAN Tips
 

Hello, im new to this forum and Slackware. I just finished installing Slackware for the first time dual booting with Winxp about an hour ago. I know theres been some problems to SOME users concerning the installation of the NFORCE Drivers from Nvidia on Slackware 10.

I know that for me, doing the usual "sh NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1.run" automatic installer thing didnt work and I just got the usual message that nvnet.o cannot be found or whatever all that confusing thing it said, basically it just wont install.

So I read the release notes from the Nvidia website and it said something about doing an extraction of the NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1.run file and doing a manual compile (not really cuz well be using make--kinda).

So under root, I did a: "sh NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1 --extract-only" and it extracted its contents into a directory in the current one I was on. I went inside that directory and went inside the 'nvnet' folder and then I did these:

make clean
make
make install

BUT during 'make install' it didnt work all the way because it said it couldnt find "install.o" or whatever the hell that was, but then I went back to the shell and typed the command 'install' and i found it was on my system. So I thought maybe that the makefile was broken so I opened it with emacs (i didnt use Vi because I didnt know how to exit out of it :P) and looked for the part where the install command was being issued, wrote it down on paper, went back to the shell and did this:

install -b -m 755 -o root nvnet.o /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/net

After that I went to that folder and checked to see if anything happend and I saw that the file nvnet.o which I compiled was there so that gave me good sign.

I then remembered some of the things I read on this forum about the alias eth0 nvnet being inside the modules.conf so I opened /etc/modules.conf and added that command since it wasnt there. I then restarted my machine, and OMG it worked. Im typing this all happy right now hehe (i know im a noob haha).

So I hope this helps you people who dont want to try recompiling your kernel or whatever or if the other methods didnt work.

For the PRO's who read this, if you think im doing something which can be done in an easier way, please do correct me. Thanks!

Don't quote me, but i believe you can just run
sh Nforce.......run
and it will give you a gui-ish interface and attempt to install the driver(s), recompile the kernel, for you by itself.

I installed Slackware 10 last night and everything worked right from the start. I have never installed the nforce drivers for any distro. I must be one of the lucky ones :)

hehe yeah you guys are one of the lucky ones!

It worked out on a fresh install of both Slack 9.1 and 10 on my Asus A7N8x-Delux mobo too. However by default it uses the Gigabit lan port (top one), and not the 100Meg one (bottom one)

Maybe you did a fresh install with the 2.6 kernel, cuz I heard that those have built in support for nforce.. I installed using 2.4.26.

MAny Thanks
 

Hello.

I-m newbie like you.
im using K7N2 Delta2 MSI and Slackware 10, but kernel 2.4.26.

I use NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0274.tar.gz drivers and y put on /etc/modules.conf the line alias eth0 nvnet and now look where i am surfing

Another question, what you do with the sound drivers !