Okay, I managed to get the new forcedeth drivers (ended up just getting the newly-released 2.6.2 kernel) working and everything with that is running perfectly, the problem now is the display drivers.

I downloaded the newest nvidia drivers (1.0.5336) and went to install them,only to find that they couldn't install the kernel module (it goes through building the interface fine and then chokes).

if I run the NVIDIA installer with the --kernel-name= option, then the module is built and supposedly installed, but if you start X using the new nVidia driver then X crashes saying that it couldn't initilize the module

Help please!

Well.. I dunno.. Maybe its cause the nvidia driver is only for the 2.4 kernel? And you have to wait for them to release a 2.6 kernel driver? That help?

No. One of the major features that's new in the 1.0.5336 drivers is 2.6 kernel support, and it's not working.

I also forgot to mention: I tried to do

root@localhost:~# insmod /lib/modules/2.6.2/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

and got

insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.2/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko': -1 Invalid module format



During the install procedure, I had to add the --kernel-name= commandline option in order to get it to build the kernel modules