Drivers for Nforce2 Mobo?

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Drivers for Nforce2 Mobo?
started by: SaidinUnleashed

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on April 28 2004,14:35

are there drivers for nforce2 on DSL? when i boot it on my desktop, it doesn't see my USBs or NIC.

i know that there aren't drivers for Nforce2 on Knoppix 3.3, because it uses the 2.4 kernel. maybe something to do for the next release?

Posted by woverin on April 28 2004,18:54

check out my post
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....7;t=102 >

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on April 29 2004,00:37

thats great if i had it installed on a hd, but i want it to see the nic and usbs from the cd. i'm lazy like that. and by i'm lazy, i mean that i'm enough of a n00b to linux that i don't know how to do it myself. ^_^

Posted by woverin on April 29 2004,03:14

I think if you use DSL 0.63, usb is recognized by default. At least my Abit NF7-F(NForce2) did. For the NIC, you can download my driver and bring up the terminal

Code Sample

sudo su
tar -zxvf nvnet.tar.gz
cd nvnet
install-nvet
insmod nvnet
netcardconfig

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on April 30 2004,15:47

okies. thanks, one more question, though, what driver do i need to add to the usb boot image to make it boot on nforce2? it doesn't recognise it with the generic usb driver. -_-

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on May 02 2004,03:07

*shameless bump*

it would still be nice for this driver to be in the cd....

Posted by woverin on May 02 2004,04:57

i hope John can include my NForce2 self compile to future release.
For usb, i don't know what usb hub are you using. DSL 0.63 suppose to support both UHCI and OHCI.
if you want my driver to load automacally, then find a file called
bootlocal.sh
add this
sudo modprobe nvnet.o

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on May 09 2004,04:56

yeah, i got the UCHI to work for my usb ports, but by default i think that they are ECHI... never heard of that for usbs, but thats what it says on the rundown thing after it posts...