nForce4 ethernet

ferrisr · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Computer

Is the nforce4 ethernet supported at all... ie a driver that can be installed after install, or one that can be loaded off the CD? Or am I stuck with the marvall interface?

alsuren · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2005 Posts: 19 Location: London

in case you haven't found it on an nvidia site already: type modprobe forcedeth (worked on 2004....erm the last one before 2005. I've not tried it on 2005.0 yet because on gentoo there's no need :D

I did have a problem with my sata hard drives but luckily I had an IDE one sitting about and I migrated after. (this is because I'm lazy though rather than anything else. I know other people have gotten it working..... but the "reverse engineered nforce ethernet" in the kernel works and "modprobe forcedeth" will sort you out on 2004.3

(can you tell that I'm adopting unanswered threads to incrace my comment count?)
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ferrisr · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Computer

hmm... forcedeth worked. thanks.

System restore live cd (based on gentoo) works on here with my sata drive, but 2005.0 wont work. it cant find the root file system unless i put in my ide drive. It modprobes nv_sata from the start and recognizes my hdd without any further probing. any ideas on that?

tscolari · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:41 am Post subject:

isnt better use marvel instead of the nforce one?
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ferrisr · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Computer

why would it be? the nforce one is on the pci express bus while, i think, the marval one is on the pci bus.

tscolari · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:54 am Post subject:

i ask because, if i still usign the same nv kernel driver it is the same for the 10/100mb of the nforce2 one isnt it?
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scruff · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:30 am Post subject:

Yes. Nvidia is 10/100 while Marvel is 1000.
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RiverRat · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 65 Location: Colorado

I'm not real sure about the kernel drivers (I use the forcedeth one for my MSI K8N Neo2 nForce3) but I know that the NIC is not connected to either the PCI or PCI-e from the reading that I have done on MSI and other sites. The decision was to connect it directly to the southbridge (one chip means that the south/north bridge are one in the same) so that the ethernet bandwidth wouldn't be constrained by a bus. Gigabit ethernet can easily saturate a PCI bus and as for PCI-e it depends how many channels there are supporting it. Placing it on the bridge chip enables it to use the hypertransport bus directly.
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