Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-25 Thread Scarletdown
On 21 Nov 2003 at 11:05, John Peter wrote: Roberto is right - don't let yourself be intimidated with it ! Put everything on paper and follow the guide step by step, you will succed and it's not that hard - it just seems so... Don't forget to unninstall and clean everything you did

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: On 21 Nov 2003 at 0:09, Roberto Sanchez wrote: No no no no! Don't start over. If you have headers, there is no need to make anything. I originassy thought you were going to install kernel-sources. Since you installed headers, just go ahaed an remake the driver module.

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-21 Thread Scarletdown
On 21 Nov 2003 at 2:25, Roberto Sanchez wrote: You probably have a compiler version mismatch (i.e., the kernel was compiled with a slightly different version of gcc than what you have installed. I recommend that you just get the full sources, customize, and build your kernel, then build the

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Hopefully it won't come to that though. Sadly, I took a look through those instructions and found myself rather overwhelmed (time to go take an Ibuprofen and read through them again...) To slove the AGPGART problem,

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-21 Thread John Peter
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Scarletdown wrote: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Hopefully it won't come to that though. Sadly, I took a look through those instructions and found myself rather overwhelmed (time to go take an Ibuprofen and read through them again...) To slove

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: On 19 Nov 2003 at 10:37, Scarletdown wrote: On 19 Nov 2003 at 9:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Not only that, this is what it says in the release notes: At the current time, the nForce drivers require a 2.4 series kernel. Frm the screen shot, it looks like a 2.2.20 kernel.

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 2:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Execute the following (this assumes /usr/src/linux points to your current kernel source): cd /usr/src/linux cp /boot/config-2-4-18-your version .config make oldconfig make dep After all that, it should work. That didn't work, because I

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Nick Hastings
* Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] [031120 15:26]: On 19 Nov 2003 at 10:37, Scarletdown wrote: On 19 Nov 2003 at 9:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Not only that, this is what it says in the release notes: At the current time, the nForce drivers require a 2.4 series kernel.

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 17:57, Nick Hastings wrote: Looks like you need to install the kernel-headers package that goes which your kernel-image package (assuming you are using a prepackaged Debian kernel). # apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` then make a symlink to /usr/src/linux

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander Rink
On Thursday 20 November 2003 10:40, Scarletdown wrote: On 20 Nov 2003 at 17:57, Nick Hastings wrote: Looks like you need to install the kernel-headers package that goes which your kernel-image package (assuming you are using a prepackaged Debian kernel). # apt-get install

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 11:00, Alexander Rink wrote: apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` will fetch that missing files from a debian server for you. And that makes for a nice little catch-22 situation. The whole reason I'm doing this is so I can get the nVidia nForce drivers installed.

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander Rink
On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:12, Scarletdown wrote: And that makes for a nice little catch-22 situation. The whole reason I'm doing this is so I can get the nVidia nForce drivers installed. Without them, neither of the on-board NICs work (or the sound for that matter). So there is no way

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread John Peter
Scarletdown wrote: On 20 Nov 2003 at 11:00, Alexander Rink wrote: apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` will fetch that missing files from a debian server for you. And that makes for a nice little catch-22 situation. The whole reason I'm doing this is so I can get the

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander Rink
On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:33, Alexander Rink wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:12, Scarletdown wrote: And that makes for a nice little catch-22 situation. The whole reason I'm doing this is so I can get the nVidia nForce drivers installed. Without them, neither of the

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 10:39, John Peter wrote: No problem there - you did install from a cd right?(you must have, as you don't have connectivity). Use apt-cdrom add to put your install cd in your sources and I did that, and inserted the disk that has the kernal headers (disk 6).

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: On 20 Nov 2003 at 10:39, John Peter wrote: No problem there - you did install from a cd right?(you must have, as you don't have connectivity). Use apt-cdrom add to put your install cd in your sources and I did that, and inserted the disk that has the kernal headers (disk

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 19:41, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Scarletdown wrote: On 20 Nov 2003 at 10:39, John Peter wrote: Couldn't find package kernal-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 ^^ Kernel is spelled with two e's and no a's. Could that be the problem? That's possible. I

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 2:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Execute the following (this assumes /usr/src/linux points to your current kernel source): cd /usr/src/linux cp /boot/config-2-4-18-your version .config make oldconfig make dep After all that, it should work. The headers are now

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: On 20 Nov 2003 at 2:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Execute the following (this assumes /usr/src/linux points to your current kernel source): cd /usr/src/linux cp /boot/config-2-4-18-your version .config make oldconfig make dep After all that, it should work. The headers are

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 22:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: cd /usr/src/ ln -s kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 linux cd linux/ Okay. I just gave that a try, and then running make oldconfig still gives me the No rule to make target `oldconfig'. Stop error. I think I'm just going to have to go ahead and

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: On 20 Nov 2003 at 22:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: cd /usr/src/ ln -s kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 linux cd linux/ Okay. I just gave that a try, and then running make oldconfig still gives me the No rule to make target `oldconfig'. Stop error. I think I'm just going to have

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 21 Nov 2003 at 0:09, Roberto Sanchez wrote: No no no no! Don't start over. If you have headers, there is no need to make anything. I originassy thought you were going to install kernel-sources. Since you installed headers, just go ahaed an remake the driver module. Just for the

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-19 Thread Scarletdown
I have been using a A7N8X Deluxe with Debian for about a month now and have been extremely happy with it. One thing to remember is to boot with noapic nolapic kernel parameters. Do some googling if you want to know more. I have been using the forcedeth driver for a week now and nothing

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-19 Thread Alexander Rink
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 10:22, Scarletdown wrote: snip I downloaded the drivers from nVidia and followed their instructions for installing them... tar -xvzf *gz (since I didn't want to type in the rather lengthy file name) cd nforce make make install make and make install gave me

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Alexander Rink wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2003 10:22, Scarletdown wrote: snip I downloaded the drivers from nVidia and followed their instructions for installing them... tar -xvzf *gz (since I didn't want to type in the rather lengthy file name) cd nforce make make install make and make

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-19 Thread Scarletdown
On 19 Nov 2003 at 9:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Not only that, this is what it says in the release notes: At the current time, the nForce drivers require a 2.4 series kernel. Frm the screen shot, it looks like a 2.2.20 kernel. Well, I downloaded everything from here:

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-19 Thread Scarletdown
On 19 Nov 2003 at 10:37, Scarletdown wrote: On 19 Nov 2003 at 9:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Not only that, this is what it says in the release notes: At the current time, the nForce drivers require a 2.4 series kernel. Frm the screen shot, it looks like a 2.2.20 kernel. Well,

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-19 Thread Scarletdown
On 19 Nov 2003 at 10:37, Scarletdown wrote: On 19 Nov 2003 at 9:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Not only that, this is what it says in the release notes: At the current time, the nForce drivers require a 2.4 series kernel. Frm the screen shot, it looks like a 2.2.20 kernel.

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: Has anyone here managed to successfully get Debian working on an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard? I especially need to make sure that both on-board NICs (nVidia nForce MCP and 3Com 3C920B-EMB), and the on-board sound (nVidia nForce) will work. Go to the nVidia site and download the

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-18 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:50:04PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Scarletdown wrote: Has anyone here managed to successfully get Debian working on an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard? I especially need to make sure that both on-board NICs (nVidia nForce MCP and 3Com 3C920B-EMB), and

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Josh McKinney wrote: I have been using a A7N8X Deluxe with Debian for about a month now and have been extremely happy with it. One thing to remember is to boot with noapic nolapic kernel parameters. Do some googling if you want to know more. I have been using the forcedeth driver for a week