Hello,

I am new to the forum here so i appoligize (sp?) if this topic has been covered here already. I ran a search through this distribution forum, and turned up nada.

I just installed Libranet 2.8.1 on my machine set up to duel boot with Win2K to Migrate myself off windoze. Kernel is default with distro 2.4.21.

The problem comes with the onboard nVidia nForce2 chipset for the NIC, It will not detect, although the Video and Sound work perfectly so far. I have been googling to my hearts content about this problem with the NIC since last night, and tried several things without success.

1) downloading NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0256.tar.gz , NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz , NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0274.tar.gz and NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0292-pkg1.run adn attemptin to run with no success. I used the intructions from nVidia on this as well as from libranet.com/support/2.8/0346
no go,

I keep getting this error each and everytime :
root@linuxmachine:/tmp# tar xzf NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz
root@linuxmachine:/tmp# cd nforce/
root@linuxmachine:/tmp/nforce# make
make -C nvnet
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/nforce/nvnet'
cc -c -Wall -DLINUX -DMODULE -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -D__KERNEL__ -O -Wstrict-prototypes -DCONFIG_PM
-fno-strict-aliasing -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -falign-functions=4
-DMODULE -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/include nvnet.c
In file included from nvnet.h:20,from nvnet.c:21:
/usr/include/linux/module.h:21:34: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [nvnet.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nforce/nvnet'
make: *** [nvnet_make] Error 2
root@linuxmachine:/tmp/nforce#

Then For giggles, I ran a Make Install......
root@linuxmachine:/tmp/nforce# make install
make -C nvnet install
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/nforce/nvnet'
mkdir -p //lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/net
install -b -m 644 -o root nvnet.o //lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/net
install: cannot stat `nvnet.o': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nforce/nvnet'
make: *** [nvnet_install] Error 2

root@linuxmachine:/tmp/nforce#

If anyone could help a out it will be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks!!

I got the same problem...

Hi there,

It looks like the compile process is looking for the header file modversions.h. Does your setup have either the kernel source files or the kernel header files installed? You'd need one or the other to compile any neew modules I believe. Another thing you can do is use the Nforce 2 network driver that comes with the kernel - if it's in the 2.4.21 kernel. It's called 'forcedeth' and it works very well. As root, run the command 'modprobe forcedeth' and see if the module loads. It may not be in a kernel version that old though?

Libranet has how to do this on their support page: http://libranet.com/support/2.8/0346

You must first re-compile your kernel before you are able to install the nvidia drivers. The "forcedeth" driver is not available in kernel 2.4.21, but you can use that if you upgrade to a newer kernel. Also, the audio driver nvaudio isn't needed. You can use i810_audio (included in the kernel) instead.

Thanks for the replies folks,

it's been awhile since i posted this and was able to check, ended up wiht another project to build since Christmas.

m_yates - i tried the exact thing from libranets website you mentioned, and i don't think 2.4.21 kernel supported.
But after doing research for my new project that involved SATA drives, downloaded an "updated" iso from libranet and the kernel supplied ended up recognizing the NIC soooooo....kernel 2.5.xx off the top of my head (could be wrong on that) did the trick

thanks again everyone that replied!