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On Friday 05 December 2003 09:52 pm, Erin S. wrote:
> So, I'm trying to get a computer working, and I discovered that my
> primary problems were due to the fact that I needed to install the
> motherboard drivers... So, I went to nvidia.com, and downloaded the
> driver I needed (NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh80up_2.4.18_14.athlon.rpm)...
> so, now red hat recognizes that I have an ethernet card, but when I try
> to activate it, it just sits there, and then eventually tells me
> "Cannot activate network device eth0"...
> I checked to ensure that I had the ethernet cable connected, and that I
> had successfully ordered network access from BYU... (on-campus
> ethernet)... i don't know what else the problem could be... are there
> any recommendations out there?
> ~Erin
>
Erin,
I use an nforce board, and know the annoyances it can cause. The first thing
I would check is what version of the kernel you're using:
uname -r
If the output (ie mine says: "2.4.22-10mdk") doesn't match up with the
"...2.4.18_14..." in the driver's file name, this next part applies,
otherwise skip down to the paragraph after this next one
Kernel mismatch case:
Goto nvidia.com and back to the nforce driver page. This time download the
"kernel tar file". Printing out the instructions is recommended, I'm not
going to give much detail here. The only difference is after you're in the
"nforce" directory, change to the "nvnet" directory, then do the "make"
command and make install just as it says in the instructions.
Next:
Two things to do (you'll need to be root for this):
1. Setup your modules.conf file. open: "/etc/modules.conf" with emacs or vim
(your preference) and add these lines (this is from mine):
alias eth0 nvnet
options nvnet optimization=1
2. do a "lsmod" (without the " s of course), scroll through the list looking
for a "nvnet" entry. If you don't find it, you've got two options:
insmod nvnet
or
modprobe nvnet
that should insert the module. ignore warnings about tainted modules.
That should be all you need to do to get it working. (If the above steps don't
help, reboot and check) But if that doesn't help I'd check on
linuxquestions.org, or the nvidia linux forums.
Hope this helps
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