Lo,

I'm fairly new to linux although we use it a lot on my degree course so I've installed it at home (Red Hat 9.0).

Anyway I've been trying to get my nforce2 onboard LAN working, without much success.

I installed "NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.athlon.rpm" from nvidia.com and the device appeared in networking - although I couldn't activate it - "eth0 nvnet doesn't seem to be present" (or something similar), this error also appears on boot... <same as> delaying initialisation.. [FAILED].
I tried removing it using rpm -e.. although it says .."is not installed", trying installing it using rpm it says ..."is already installed" lol...
So I tried installing "NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_9.athlon.rpm" then, same error (i.e. "doesn't seem to be present, delaying initialisation").

My kernel is 2.4.20-8... I wasn't sure if the driver's meant up to <x> (from the file name) or not, thats why I ended up trying both :/

Sorry if im sounding like a complete noob here, we all start somewhere

Any help/advice appreciated greatly.
Thanks,
-Matt.

I don't know much about the nforce drivers, but it looks like your rpm might not match your kernel version.

Regarding your removal problems, try:and then rpm -e whatever is listed.

If you have dependency problems, either remove the problem packages, or add --nodeps to your removal command.

Your problem may be that the kernel module (nvnet?) isn't being loaded, as root ('su -' to become root and to get root's path) type: to insert the module, then try . To have the module auto-load, add it to /etc/modules.conf.

Cheers!

You must have the kernel source installed. Then use the .tar.gz or .src.rpm version. All the nForce rpms rely on an EXACT kernel match. The tar.gz includes a configuration script which examines your kernel source and makes the right decisions for your kernel. It's not that hard to use. The instructions provided are easy enough.

DAVE

I selected "everything" so my kernel source should be installed?

Ill try the .gz now, thanks.

(I'll report back with results)

Thanks bluephile that removal worked


Just tried using the src.rpm (I'd have no idea how to use the .gz version).. anyway according to the nvidia readme I need to run
"rpm --rebuild nforce{package name}-1.0-1.src.rpm"
when I attempt this I recieve the error --rebuild unknown option?


Thanks for any help.

Thanks all.

I'm now on the net, running Linux got the nforce drivers working.
Figured out its rpmbuild --rebuild

Thanks again.