Re: installing sarge with nforce2
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:15:29AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> On, Tue, Nov 04, 2003, Jamin Collins wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:53:26PM +0100, Philippe Makowski wrote:
> > > is the official installation cd of sarge
> > > (http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/) working with a
> > > nforce2 chipstet motherboard (especially networking adaptator) ?
> >
> > AFAIK, the nforce2 ethernet adaptor requires the nVidia driver. So, my
> > guess would be no. The installs I've done on nforce2 system have all
> > been done via a USB NIC with the nVidia drivers downloaded and installed
> > after the system is up and running.
>
> The nVidia driver is:
> NVIDIA_Linux-X86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run
> Installation will require kernel-headers for your kernel. Works well.
No, the driver is:
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz
Note, this is referencing the nforce2 chipset, not an nVidia graphics
card.
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Jamin W. Collins
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