Can somebody send me the module (nforce2)?

qeldroma · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 370

I want to use the live-CD to install gentoo on my NVIDIA NForce2 Board. So i need the networking module compiled for the live-CD so that i can install it.

Can somebody mail it to me?

Just the "nvnet.o" is needed, i will copy it then into /lib/..../net and "--force" it to load (hope that works, because it is not in the kernel-dependencies then...).

Thanks

triad · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 3:00 am Post subject:

Cant you get from here?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0248.html in the source file download.

Not sure if it will help or not.

If it doesnt you might want to consider doing a a gentoo install via Knoppix.

Good Luck,

Triad
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qeldroma · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 370

I wanted to try this new "genkernel" thing and that needs beeing run via live-cd, because it takes, what the kernel had found.
Of course, there are alternatives to install, i just wanted to figure this one out.

AFAIK the nforce-module for the NIC must be exactly for the actual kernel, so i can't use precompiled ones. I need one build with the starting kernel from the live-cd to do that...

qeldroma · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 370

But if someone could give me a hint, where i can find the sources for the live-cd-kernel AND the ".config" file, i can build the module myself?!

PoltheMol · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 50

had here also major problems with my nforce chipset, and network , i just used a pci nic cause that nforce NIC kept on bitching :/
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qeldroma · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 370

NFORCE2 - The way without Live-CD is:
chrooting from another linux.

Works pretty well, but then i can't try genkernel out, because it didn't boot from the live-cd....

floffe · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject:

Yes you can try genkernel. To get it you have to

Xylene · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 111

I was just going to install Gentoo today, then I noticed Knoppix doesn't even support my nic, using the one on a Biostar M7NCD nForce 2 400 board. Any idea if Gentoo is going to include this module in upcoming releases?