Re: Fresh install of Woody on Asus A7N8X (NFORCE2)
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On Friday 20 June 2003 11:05, David Gaudine wrote:
> Has anyone done a fresh install of Woody on an ASUS A7N8X? If so, did
> you have to make your own installation diskette, and what kernel did you
> use? I've followed the instructions in the installation guide to put my
> own kernel on the rescue disk, but I can't mount the driver disk image to
> put my own modules. (I'm not sure if this is a problem, I don't have the
> system yet so I don't know what will happen if I have an invalid driver
> disk but all the drivers are compiled in anyway.)
>
> I see that 2.4.21 and 2.5.70 both support the NFORCE IDE, but what about
> the NVIDIA and 3COM network interfaces? There's a patch for this on the
> nvidia web site, but it was intended for an earlier 2.4 kernel and I
> don't think it allows not using modules. I'm tempted to put an ne2k card
> in for now. David
I have... basically it's not a fresh install, I used my old installation and just changed the computer.
It is a very good idea to plug in a seperate nic, because both, the 3com and the nforce nic onboard won't work with the stock kernel.
You will need to compile 2.4.21 by hand and patch the 3com driver.
the nforce nic will not work with 2.4.21 although it contains drivers for it. but somehow it seems nvidia made some changes.
I found the patch somewhere on the net and it is made for the 2.4.20 kernel in Redhat.
you need to download the patch and install the SRC RPM. Then you will find two patches.
One is an additional patch for the 3com driver and one is a modified version of the 2.4.21rc4 diff.
Do not apply the 2.4.21rc4 diff!!!
Actually I used the 2.4.21rc4 from kernel.org and only applied the 3com patch.
then compile the kernel and the 3com nic will work. For the nforce nic you need to get the source from nvidia and compile it *after* you have successfully installed the new kernel.
Follow the readme file to place the correct lines into /etc/modules.conf or the driver will not load.
Do the same for the onboard sound if you have it.
Sound driver is the i810.
Also include the IDE driver for nforce2 which is included in the 2.4.21 kernel.
HTH
Arne
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