Installing nforce2 board drivers on RH9

[Anton Erasmus]

Hi,

I downloaded the file
NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.athlon.rpm

from nvidia and installed as su using

rpm -ivh NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.athlon.rpm

Everything seems fine and it returns to the command propmt without
any error messages.
When I reboot, the network interface is failes to initialise saying
that the nvnet module is not present.
As far as I am aware the above rpm was supposed to install this
module. Can anyone give me some pointers on where to go next in
resolving this problem ?

Regards
Anton Erasmus

[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

Anton Erasmus (<junk@junk.net>) wrote:

> I downloaded the file
> NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.athlon.rpm
>
> from nvidia and installed as su using
>
> rpm -ivh NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.athlon.rpm
>
> Everything seems fine and it returns to the command propmt without
> any error messages.
> When I reboot, the network interface is failes to initialise saying
> that the nvnet module is not present.
> As far as I am aware the above rpm was supposed to install this
> module. Can anyone give me some pointers on where to go next in
> resolving this problem ?

First, check of the module is installed. Do "modprobe nvnet". If the
module is not installed, modprobe will sat it can't locate it. Search
your /lib/modules/$kernelversion for nvnet.o. Maybe you have to run
depmod -a.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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[Lenard]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:18:21 +0200, Anton Erasmus typed:

> Hi,
>
> I downloaded the file
> NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.athlon.rpm
>
> from nvidia and installed as su using
>
> rpm -ivh NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.athlon.rpm
>
> Everything seems fine and it returns to the command propmt without any
> error messages.
> When I reboot, the network interface is failes to initialise saying that
> the nvnet module is not present. As far as I am aware the above rpm was
> supposed to install this module. Can anyone give me some pointers on where
> to go next in resolving this problem ?

Hmmm........... did you download and install the correct RPM, check.

From the console or xterm session type; uname -r

If you don't see 2.4.20-6 then go back to nVidia's site and download the
NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm (sroll down near the bottom of the page).

First remove the incorrect RPM package, as root from the console or xterm
session;

rpm -e NVIDIA_nforce

Then as root from the console or xterm session where the downloaded file
resides type;

rpmbuild --rebuild --recompile NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm

Then install the RPM package found in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386


FYI: When Red Hat released Red Hat Linux 9 two kernels where released,
kernel-2.4.20-6 for the boxed sets and kernel-2.4.20-8 for the download
version. The NVIDIA_nforce RPM package was created for the boxed kernel.



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[Anton Erasmus]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:38:19 GMT, Lenard <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:18:21 +0200, Anton Erasmus typed:
>

>> Hi,
>>
>> I downloaded the file
>> NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.athlon.rpm
>>
>> from nvidia and installed as su using
>>
>> rpm -ivh NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.athlon.rpm
>>
>> Everything seems fine and it returns to the command propmt without any
>> error messages.
>> When I reboot, the network interface is failes to initialise saying that
>> the nvnet module is not present. As far as I am aware the above rpm was
>> supposed to install this module. Can anyone give me some pointers on where
>> to go next in resolving this problem ?

>
>Hmmm........... did you download and install the correct RPM, check.
>
>From the console or xterm session type; uname -r
>
>If you don't see 2.4.20-6 then go back to nVidia's site and download the
>NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm (sroll down near the bottom of the page).
>
>First remove the incorrect RPM package, as root from the console or xterm
>session;
>
>rpm -e NVIDIA_nforce
>
>Then as root from the console or xterm session where the downloaded file
>resides type;
>
>rpmbuild --rebuild --recompile NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm
>
>Then install the RPM package found in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
>
>
>FYI: When Red Hat released Red Hat Linux 9 two kernels where released,
>kernel-2.4.20-6 for the boxed sets and kernel-2.4.20-8 for the download
>version. The NVIDIA_nforce RPM package was created for the boxed kernel.

Thanks for the replay. I managed to get it working by using the source
rpms.

Just to clarify a few things from above:

I have the boxed set of RH9.
I downloaded both binary rpms on nvidias site for RH9. Neither of them
worked.

As a semi-advanced newbie in Linux, I must say that my experience with
trying to get binary rpms on RH9 going to be quite painfull. I have
found many rpms that fail with (to me mysterious errors), while the
tar balls and source rpms work most of the time.
The only problem I have had with tar balls, are that if a rpm says it
needs some other package, and one install it via a tar ball, the rpm
system still seems to think it is not installed.

Regards
Anton Erasmus

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

Anton Erasmus wrote:

> I have the boxed set of RH9.
> I downloaded both binary rpms on nvidias site for RH9. Neither of them
> worked.

If you're not using a matching kernel, re-compile the kernel-nvidia RPM
from the .src.rpm to match your kernel, and install *THAT*. You'll also
need to edit the /etc/X11/XF86cfg to use the "nvidia" driver rather than
others.