Hi
I recently got a new machine which has an Asus m2npv-mx motherboard. Suse 10.1 installs well enough on it, but will not recognise the on-board lan card which is an nVidia chipset.

On the disk that came with the board are Linux drivers, but none in rpm format.
I do not have enough knowledge or experience to build/make my own driver for it.

Has anyone got the same board and managed to resolve the problem, and thus point me in the right direction to solve it.

Try as root...

localhost#> modprobe forcedeth

That should load the right driver for your nic.

Then do...

localhost#> ifconfig eth0 up


See if that works for you. I find it odd that Linux didn't install the forcedeth module automatically but i guess see if this works.

linux-45tt:/home/bendix # modprobe forcedeth
linux-45tt:/home/bendix # ifconfig eth0 up
linux-45tt:/home/bendix # ifconfig

eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:E6:BA:CC
inet6 addr: fe80::217:31ff:fee6:bacc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:217 Base address:0x4000

lo
Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11642 (11.3 Kb) TX bytes:11642 (11.3 Kb)



This is what I get after issuing those two commands as root.
Linux detects the card as an AsusTek MCP51, but will not allow me to connect to the internet or even get the address from the dhcp server.

So I am a bit stumped on this one!

Well, at least the hardware is being detected.

So dhcp isn't working?

as root....

localhost#> dhcpcd eth0

If not, than try setting it up statically.

Hope that helps.

Still no go. It would seem that unless I can find a way to get the nVidia drivers loaded, this nic is not going to work.

I have entered the address staticaly but still no go!

Im not sure if you got a fix for this but if you didnt or
just in case there are others out there looking for a fix
to this problem, here is something to try.

apparently the driver file "nforce-linux-x86-1.0-310-pkg1.run"
needs to be installed for the lan card to work.

I myself dont have this motherboard but am thinking of getting one.
If I do I will post an edit on how it goes.

the info came from this website:

http://www.linux-tested.com/results/asus_m2npv-vm.html

hopefully Im not breaching any rules by posting the link,
it is a review site not an advertising site so I figure
anything that helps us get linux running on new equip is
a good thing. mods feel free to remove post if Im wrong


Cheers
Sentinelt

I have an ASUS mobo. I just installed the kernel module that was available in ASUS.com site. That works quite well. Just make the file, its not that hard.

I downloaded the before mentioned file "NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1.run" and it is not working under Ubuntu 9.10. It needs to be run under root and when I try I get screens talking about having to compile a new kernel and then that fails resulting in overall installation failure. It appears to be quite difficult for me as a beginner. My on-board LAN is still not working.

Below is the log file when I tried to run the file. I do not know what any of this stuff means.
========================================================================
nforce-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-nforce-installer.log'
creation time: Wed Mar 17 19:04:59 2010

option status:
license pre-accepted : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
no precompiled interface : false
no ncurses color : false
no questions : false
silent : false
Installer install prefix : /usr
kernel source path : (not specified)
net kernel install path : (not specified)
audio kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> Found package NVIDIA audio driver for Linux-x86
-> Found package NVIDIA network driver for Linux-x86
-> Please select packages for installation:
Selections:
NVIDIA audio driver for Linux-x86 (1.0-7)
NVIDIA network driver for Linux-x86 (1.0-13)
-> Starting install of NVIDIA audio driver for Linux-x86
-> Checking for loaded module nvsound
-> Checking for loaded module nvaudio
-> License accepted.
-> Skipping check for conflicting rpms.
-> /proc/version is Linux version 2.6.31-20-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc
version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8) ) #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09
UTC 2010
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; this means
that the installer will need to compile a new kernel interface.
-> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build'
-> Kernel output path: '/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build'
-> Performing cc_version_check with CC="cc".
-> running command /bin/grep "^PATCHLEVEL ="
/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build/Makefile | /usr/bin/cut -d " " -f 3
-> Kernel module filename is nvsound.ko
Cleaning kernel module build directory.
executing: 'cd ./nvsound/main; make clean'...
rm -f *.ko *mod.* *.cmd nv*.o *~ core
-> Building kernel module:
executing: 'cd ./nvsound/main; make module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-gen
eric/build SYSOUT=/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build'...
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build \
KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic \
KBUILD_EXTMOD="/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main"
-f /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/Makefile \
modules
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are mis
sing."; \
echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it
."; \
echo; \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/.tmp_ve
rsions ; rm -f /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/.
tmp_versions/*
make -f /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/scripts/Makefile.build obj=
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main
cc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/.nv
alinux.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/include -I/
usr/src/linux-headers-lbm- -Iinclude -Iinclude2 -I/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6
.31-20-generic/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/i
nclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Iubuntu/include -I/usr/src/linux-h
eaders-2.6.31-20-generic/ubuntu/include -I/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86
-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -
Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-dec
laration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -O2 -m32 -msof
t-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=
i586 -mtune=generic -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -fstack-protector -f
stack-protector-all -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
-mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-omit-fr
ame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-p
ointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm -I/tmp/selfgz8131/NFO
RCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310
-pkg1/nvsound/main -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-s
ubscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -O -MD -Wno-c
ast-qual -Wno-error -DNV_CHANGE_PAGE_ATTR_PRESENT -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)
=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(nvalinux)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(
nvsound)" -c -o /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main
/.tmp_nvalinux.o /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main
/nvalinux.c
In file included from include/linux/bitops.h:17,
from include/linux/kernel.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/incl
ude/asm/percpu.h:45,
from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/incl
ude/asm/current.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/incl
ude/asm/processor.h:15,
from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
from include/linux/list.h:6,
from include/linux/module.h:9,
from /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound
/main/nvalinux.c:19:
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h: In f
unction ‘set_bit’:
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:64: w
arning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h: In f
unction ‘clear_bit’:
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:102:
warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h: In f
unction ‘change_bit’:
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:178:
warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
In file included from include/linux/list.h:6,
from include/linux/module.h:9,
from /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound
/main/nvalinux.c:19:
include/linux/prefetch.h: In function ‘prefetch_range’:
include/linux/prefetch.h:57: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a
rithmetic
In file included from /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound
/main/nvalinux.c:25:
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h: In funct
ion ‘writeq’:
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:70: warni
ng: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
In file included from include/linux/dma-mapping.h:7,
from include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h:7,
from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/incl
ude/asm/pci.h:129,
from include/linux/pci.h:1112,
from /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound
/main/nvalinux.c:29:
include/linux/scatterlist.h: In function ‘sg_virt’:
include/linux/scatterlist.h:199: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used
in arithmetic
In file included from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/incl
ude/asm/dma-mapping.h:36,
from include/linux/dma-mapping.h:107,
from include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h:7,
from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/incl
ude/asm/pci.h:129,
from include/linux/pci.h:1112,
from /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound
/main/nvalinux.c:29:
include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h: In function ‘dma_map_page’:
include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h:77: warning: pointer of type ‘voi
d *’ used in arithmetic
In file included from include/linux/interrupt.h:13,
from /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound
/main/nvalinux.c:30:
include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘object_is_on_stack’:
include/linux/sched.h:2192: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ar
ithmetic
In file included from /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound
/main/nvalinux.c:37:
include/linux/highmem.h: In function ‘zero_user_segments’:
include/linux/highmem.h:149: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a
rithmetic
include/linux/highmem.h:149: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a
rithmetic
include/linux/highmem.h:149: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a
rithmetic
include/linux/highmem.h:149: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a
rithmetic
include/linux/highmem.h:152: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a
rithmetic
include/linux/highmem.h:152: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a
rithmetic
include/linux/highmem.h:152: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a
rithmetic
include/linux/highmem.h:152: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a
rithmetic
In file included from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/arch/x86/incl
ude/asm/i387.h:15,
from /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound
/main/nvalinux.c:47:
include/linux/regset.h: In function ‘user_regset_copyout’:
include/linux/regset.h:230: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ar
ithmetic
include/linux/regset.h:233: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ar
ithmetic
include/linux/regset.h:237: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ar
ithmetic
include/linux/regset.h: In function ‘user_regset_copyin’:
include/linux/regset.h:255: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ar
ithmetic
include/linux/regset.h:258: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ar
ithmetic
include/linux/regset.h:262: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ar
ithmetic
include/linux/regset.h: In function ‘user_regset_copyout_zero’:
include/linux/regset.h:287: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ar
ithmetic
include/linux/regset.h:291: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ar
ithmetic
include/linux/regset.h: In function ‘user_regset_copyin_ignore’:
include/linux/regset.h:312: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ar
ithmetic
include/linux/regset.h:314: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ar
ithmetic
In file included from /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound
/main/nvalinux.c:49:
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvalinux.h: At t
op level:
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvalinux.h:46: e
rror: conflicting types for ‘uintptr_t’
include/linux/types.h:41: note: previous declaration of ‘uintptr_t’ was
here
In file included from /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound
/main/nvalinux.c:69:
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvavm.h: In func
tion ‘nv_flush_caches’:
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvavm.h:215: err
or: implicit declaration of function ‘global_flush_tlb’
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvavm.h: In func
tion ‘NV_SET_PAGE_ATTRIB_UNCACHED’:
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvavm.h:234: err
or: implicit declaration of function ‘change_page_attr’
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvalinux.c: In f
unction ‘AosFpuSave’:
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvalinux.c:181:
error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘thread_info’
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvalinux.c:185:
error: ‘struct thread_struct’ has no member named ‘i387’
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvalinux.c:189:
error: ‘struct thread_struct’ has no member named ‘i387’
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvalinux.c:191:
error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘thread_info’
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvalinux.c:214:
error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘thread_info’
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvalinux.c: In f
unction ‘AosFpuRestore’:
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvalinux.c:234:
error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘thread_info’
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nvalinux.c:235:
error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘thread_info’
make[4]: *** [/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound/main/nv
alinux.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvsound
/main] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
-> Error.
ERROR: The NVIDIA kernel module was not created.
ERROR: Installation of the audio driver has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-nforce-installer.log' for details. You may find
suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on
the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
-> Starting install of NVIDIA network driver for Linux-x86
-> Checking for loaded module nvnet
-> Checking for loaded module forcedeth
-> License accepted.
-> Skipping check for conflicting rpms.
-> /proc/version is Linux version 2.6.31-20-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc
version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8) ) #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09
UTC 2010
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; this means
that the installer will need to compile a new kernel interface.
-> Using the kernel source path '/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build' as
specified by the '--kernel-source-path' commandline option.
-> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build'
-> Using the kernel output path '/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build' as
specified by the '--kernel-output-path' commandline option.
-> Kernel output path: '/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build'
-> Performing cc_version_check with CC="cc".
-> running command /bin/grep "^PATCHLEVEL ="
/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build/Makefile | /usr/bin/cut -d " " -f 3
-> Kernel module filename is nvnet.ko
Cleaning kernel module build directory.
executing: 'cd ./nvnet; make clean'...
rm -f *.ko *mod.* *.cmd nvenet.o nvenetif.o nvnet.o *~ core
-> Building kernel module:
executing: 'cd ./nvnet; make module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/bu
ild SYSOUT=/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build'...
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build \
KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic \
KBUILD_EXTMOD="/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet" -f /us
r/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/Makefile \
modules
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are mis
sing."; \
echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it
."; \
echo; \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/.tmp_versions
; rm -f /tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/.tmp_versions/*
make -f /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/scripts/Makefile.build obj=
/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic/scripts/Makefile.build:49: *** CFLA
GS was changed in "/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/Make
file". Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.
make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/selfgz8131/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet]
Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
-> Error.
ERROR: The NVIDIA kernel module was not created.
========================================================================