No ethernet/sound with FC2/i386, ASUS K8N-E/nForce3

[fljmayer]

I just installed Fedora Core 2 i386 (not AMD64) on a new computer with an ASUS K8N-E mainboard (nForce3) with an AMD64-3400+. The installation went fine, but I have neither ethernet nor sound.
After plugging in a PCI ethernet card, I went to the nVidia web site and installed their Linux nForce drivers. The result was the same, no ethernet or sound from nForce.
Then I heard the 2.6.8 kernel has a newer forcedeth driver, so I installed version 2.6.8-1.521.i686; there is still no nViddia ethernet visible in lspci, kudzu or the Hardware Browser.
Grateful for any ideas.

[imdeemvp]

so a search in the amd 64 forum someone there posted those drivers because they had same issue, i believe. :o

[fljmayer]

I know that and tried what they said, but nothing helped.

[fljmayer]

Now I tried installing the nVidia drivers with the 2.6.8 kernel. The installer said it couldn't find precompiled headers and tried to compile them. That worked fine for the sound drivers, but failed for the ethernet driver:

-> Building kernel module:
executing: 'cd ./nvnet; make module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/build'..
.
mkdir -p /tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/.tmp_versions
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283 -pkg1/nvnet
cc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/.nvenet.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prot
otypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -msoft-float -m 32 -fno-builtin-sprintf -fno-builtin-log2 -fno-builtin-puts -mpreferred-sta
ck-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mregparm=3 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -g -Wdeclaration-after-statement -DDRIVERVER=\"9999\" -I
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -O -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -DREMAP_NEW -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME=nvenet -DKBUILD_MODNAME=nvnet -c -o /tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.o /tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c
In file included from include/linux/list.h:7,
from include/linux/wait.h:14,
from include/asm/semaphore.h:41,
from include/linux/sched.h:18,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.h:20,
from /tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:22:
include/linux/prefetch.h: In function `prefetch_range':
include/linux/prefetch.h:62: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c: In function `nvenet_xmit':
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1151: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c: In function `linuxlockacquire':
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: error: request for member `magic' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: error: request for member `lock' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: error: request for member `babble' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: error: request for member `babble' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: error: request for member `module' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: error: request for member `owner' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: error: request for member `oline' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: error: request for member `lock' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: error: request for member `owner' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1720: error: request for member `oline' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c: In function `linuxlockrelease':
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: error: request for member `magic' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: error: request for member `lock' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: error: request for member `babble' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: error: r
equest for member `babble' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: warning:
dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: error: r
equest for member `module' in something not a structure or union
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: warning:
dereferencing `void *' pointer
/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:1732: error: r
equest for member `lock' in something not a structure or union
make[3]: *** [/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.o]
Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/tmp/selfgz5796/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0283-pkg1/nvnet]
Error 2
-> Error.
ERROR: The NVIDIA kernel module was not created.