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sk8bloke87 · 08-07-2003

I have an epox 8rda+ nforce2 board, which has an onboard NIC. this NIC is detected and configured by mandrake 9.1 when I run that network configuration utility in mandrake control panel. Hiowever, in red hat 9, reed hat detects the NIC, but it wont activate the NIC. I dont know whats wrong, as it obviously sees it.

I need help fast, mandrake 9.1 is going in the bin, too buggy.

Thx

Mado · 08-07-2003

try running this in a console:

Code:

ifconfig eth0

post what it comes up with.

It don't think it'd really hurt so try this too:

Code:

ifconfig eth0 up

see if that does anything...

sk8bloke87 · 08-07-2003

will do, thx.

ventricle · 08-08-2003

I believe (and am likely to be wrong) that redhat don't install the nvidia drivers because the end user must accept the licensing of nvidia.
To resolve this, you should download the latest nvidia drivers from their site, install them, confirm the driver module is loaded at boot and you should be able to get your networking device to start.

sk8bloke87 · 08-08-2003

u sure about that? i went about installing nforce2 driver the same way i did with mandrake 9.1..

ventricle · 08-08-2003

So you already have the drivers installed then???
What did you get from /sbin/ifconfig ?

sk8bloke87 · 08-09-2003

Quote:

Originally Posted by ventricle

I believe (and am likely to be wrong) that redhat don't install the nvidia drivers because the end user must accept the licensing of nvidia.
To resolve this, you should download the latest nvidia drivers from their site, install them, confirm the driver module is loaded at boot and you should be able to get your networking device to start.

how do i confirm if theyre loaded, and how do I make them load?

sk8bloke87 · 08-09-2003

i got something about collision with that /sbib/ifconfig command.

ventricle · 08-10-2003

lsmod - list modules.
modprobe nvidia - to load.

sk8bloke87 · 08-10-2003

nvm, I found out that red hat is missing a file necessary for the nvidia nforce nci to work properly. I downloaded the file from somes ite, and now it works. however, sound doenst work properly now, darned red hat. more bugs than mandrake 9.1 i went back to mandy last night.

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