Re: nVidia Ethernet card not recognized on K7N2 (MS-6570) motherboard
On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 13:13, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed Debian 3.0 (x86) from CD-ROMs on a machine with
> a K7N2 (MS-6570) motherboard, which has an on-board Ethernet port.
> But this Ethernet port isn't recognized.
>
> lspci says:
>
> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0066 (rev a1)
>
> What should I do? Is there a driver provided with the Debian CD-ROMs?
http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.html?i=18509
http://home.t-online.de/home/Johannes.Deisenhofer/nforce2linux.html
It looks like it works best when you download the nvidia binary
driver.
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/191238&mode=thread
Of course, installing a binary kernel driver module is antithetical to
all things Debian, and disables X power management, but does make my
TNT2 card ~30x faster...
> BTW, the machine also has an Allied Telesyn AT-2500 Ethernet card,
> that could alternatively be used for the moment, but I don't know
> how to make it work either.
You'll need that to bootstrap the nvidia driver.
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