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I followed the guide at here shilo.is-a-geek.com/slack/nvidia5.html
and it says to do this:
rpm2tgz filename.rpm
installpkg filename.tgz
cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
sh make.sh
cd ..
sh make_install.sh
After I finish doing all of this it tells me this in the console:
You must change your working directory to /lib/modules/fglrx and then call ./make_install.sh in order to install the built module.
What do I do next? I'm guessing there is more to do, but I don't know what to do. I also need to install Nvidia drivers for the onboard Ethernet Adapter. I'm running ABIT NF-7 board with Athlon XP 2500+ 512MB Dual Channel and ATI Raedon 9600XT on Slackware 10.2 and using KDE. I also need help installing Nvidia onboard LAN drivers. The board uses Nforce2 chipset. Don't know how to install drivers for my motherboard so I can't get my internet to work.
I followed the guide at here shilo.is-a-geek.com/slack/nvidia5.html
and it says to do this:
rpm2tgz filename.rpm
installpkg filename.tgz
cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
sh make.sh
cd ..
sh make_install.sh
After I finish doing all of this it tells me this in the console:
You must change your working directory to /lib/modules/fglrx and then call ./make_install.sh in order to install the built module.
What do I do next?
translation:
cd /lib/modules/fglrx
./make_install.sh
Quote:
I'm guessing there is more to do, but I don't know what to do. I also need to install Nvidia drivers for the onboard Ethernet Adapter. I'm running ABIT NF-7 board with Athlon XP 2500+ 512MB Dual Channel and ATI Raedon 9600XT on Slackware 10.2 and using KDE. I also need help installing Nvidia onboard LAN drivers. The board uses Nforce2 chipset. Don't know how to install drivers for my motherboard so I can't get my internet to work.
I have a motherboard from the same series and for me it worked out of the box - but then again, I use a different distro. I suggest you visit the nvidia website and look for the driverpage for ethernet. There should be a README with full installation instructions.
Okay, I have managed to get the video drivers installed following the ATI instructions. I'm having a problem with the NVIDIA Ethernet drivers. It tells me this:
No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; this means that the installer will need to compile a new kernel interface.
Then it gives me this error:
Unable to load the kernel module 'nvnet.o'. This is most likely because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' commandline option.
And this:
Installation of the network 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.
If it is the 2.6 kernel from the cd, did you install the modules from the same directory?
Have you recompiled your kernel?
Can you post the results of
Code:
lspci
and
Code:
lsmod
You may come to the point where you will need to recompile your own kernel (The nForce drivers in the kernel work great, plus all the chipset options, etc, might require a 'custom' kernel compile.)
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