nVida onboard lan and RH9

[MattB]

Hello. I recently installed RH9 on my old hard drive in an XP system
(Athlon 2100+, 512 Mb of PC2100 RAM, 120 Gb master HD, 60 Gb slave HD). It
seemed to install pretty smoothly and GRUB is handling my boot options, but
I have a couple of issues I'm unable to work out so far.
On problem is I can't get Linux to recognize the onboard Ethernet
adaptor (NForce 2 chipset) on my Biostar M7NCD Pro board. I've hunted around
and found a RH8 driver, but that does not seem to work. Does anyone know of
a working driver for this setup? Seems like someone would gotten this to
work by now.
The next issue is once in a while GRUB will give an error (I know I
should be supplying the error, but I don't remember what it is - I'm hoping
this is common enough someone will know anyway) and I have to restart to
make it come up. Is there a known issue with it that I can upgrade away
from? It's a pain for my wife who needs to use XP on this system and of
course it always happens to her when I'm at work. If I can't get it
resolved, I think I'll have to build up a second system to keep Linux on one
and Windows on the other, but I'd really rather not have to do that.
If I do have to split out my systems, can anyone tell me a good way to
remove GRUB and restore my original Windows boot setup?
Thanks!
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Matt

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[Lenard]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:55:50 -0600, MattB typed:

> Hello. I recently installed RH9 on my old hard drive in an XP system
> (Athlon 2100+, 512 Mb of PC2100 RAM, 120 Gb master HD, 60 Gb slave HD).
> It seemed to install pretty smoothly and GRUB is handling my boot
> options, but I have a couple of issues I'm unable to work out so far.
> On problem is I can't get Linux to recognize the onboard Ethernet
> adaptor (NForce 2 chipset) on my Biostar M7NCD Pro board. I've hunted
> around and found a RH8 driver, but that does not seem to work. Does
> anyone know of a working driver for this setup? Seems like someone would
> gotten this to work by now.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261


> The next issue is once in a while GRUB will give an error (I know I
> should be supplying the error, but I don't remember what it is - I'm
> hoping this is common enough someone will know anyway) and I have to
> restart to make it come up. Is there a known issue with it that I can
> upgrade away from? It's a pain for my wife who needs to use XP on this
> system and of course it always happens to her when I'm at work. If I
> can't get it resolved, I think I'll have to build up a second system to
> keep Linux on one and Windows on the other, but I'd really rather not
> have to do that.

It's may not be an issue with GRUB it might be a Windows XP issue, without
knowing the error is impossible to tell one way or the other. Sometimes
one or more of the following may help;

Disable the PnP OS option in the BIOS and reconfigure Windows XP

Increase the timeout in GRUB from the default 10 seconds to 15 seconds

Get into the Windows XP recovery console and use fixboot (see link below)

> If I do have to split out my systems, can anyone tell me a good way
> to remove GRUB and restore my original Windows boot setup?

Boot with the XP installation CD into the recovery console type; fixmbr
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/bootcons_fixmbr.asp


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[MattB]

"Lenard" <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.09.30.15.17.31.523722@127.0.0.1...
<snip lots of helpful stuff>

Thank you! I had been to that nVida site and that's where I got the RH8
driver. So either they just posted the RH9 or I was having hysterical
blindness or something (it was getting late).

I'll try your GRUB suggestions too.

Matt

[Sasa Stupar]

MattB pravi:
> Hello. I recently installed RH9 on my old hard drive in an XP system
> (Athlon 2100+, 512 Mb of PC2100 RAM, 120 Gb master HD, 60 Gb slave HD). It
> seemed to install pretty smoothly and GRUB is handling my boot options, but
> I have a couple of issues I'm unable to work out so far.
> On problem is I can't get Linux to recognize the onboard Ethernet
> adaptor (NForce 2 chipset) on my Biostar M7NCD Pro board. I've hunted around
> and found a RH8 driver, but that does not seem to work. Does anyone know of
> a working driver for this setup? Seems like someone would gotten this to
> work by now.
> The next issue is once in a while GRUB will give an error (I know I
> should be supplying the error, but I don't remember what it is - I'm hoping
> this is common enough someone will know anyway) and I have to restart to
> make it come up. Is there a known issue with it that I can upgrade away
> from? It's a pain for my wife who needs to use XP on this system and of
> course it always happens to her when I'm at work. If I can't get it
> resolved, I think I'll have to build up a second system to keep Linux on one
> and Windows on the other, but I'd really rather not have to do that.
> If I do have to split out my systems, can anyone tell me a good way to
> remove GRUB and restore my original Windows boot setup?
> Thanks!

Check out here

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50444

[MattB]

"Lenard" <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.09.30.15.17.31.523722@127.0.0.1...
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:55:50 -0600, MattB typed:
>
> > Hello. I recently installed RH9 on my old hard drive in an XP system
> > (Athlon 2100+, 512 Mb of PC2100 RAM, 120 Gb master HD, 60 Gb slave HD).
> > It seemed to install pretty smoothly and GRUB is handling my boot
> > options, but I have a couple of issues I'm unable to work out so far.
> > On problem is I can't get Linux to recognize the onboard Ethernet
> > adaptor (NForce 2 chipset) on my Biostar M7NCD Pro board. I've hunted
> > around and found a RH8 driver, but that does not seem to work. Does
> > anyone know of a working driver for this setup? Seems like someone would
> > gotten this to work by now.
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261
>
>

So I tried this driver last night and I can't get it to work. I executed the
rpm first. Then, fired up the network applet in the GNOME environment. I
selected Add and then had a choice like nvnet or other, so I chose the nvnet
and when I try to enable it it says the device isn't present. I get a
similar failure on boot up.

I know the hardware works as I use it in XP. Any troubleshooting tips for a
Linux newb? Thanks!

Matt

[Lenard]

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:26:19 -0600, MattB typed:

> So I tried this driver last night and I can't get it to work. I executed
> the rpm first. Then, fired up the network applet in the GNOME
> environment. I selected Add and then had a choice like nvnet or other,
> so I chose the nvnet and when I try to enable it it says the device
> isn't present. I get a similar failure on boot up.

>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261

Scroll to the bottom of the page and download; Source RPM
NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm

Then as root from the console or xterm session;

rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm rpm -ivh
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.i386.rpm

Or download and build your own;
Kernel Tar File NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz

example% tar -xvzf NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz example% cd nforce
example% make
example% su
Password: ******
example# make install

And be sure to read;
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/ReleaseNotes_Linux_nForce_1.0-0261.html


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[MattB]

"Lenard" <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.10.01.16.29.31.118364@127.0.0.1...
> On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:26:19 -0600, MattB typed:
>
> > So I tried this driver last night and I can't get it to work. I executed
> > the rpm first. Then, fired up the network applet in the GNOME
> > environment. I selected Add and then had a choice like nvnet or other,
> > so I chose the nvnet and when I try to enable it it says the device
> > isn't present. I get a similar failure on boot up.
>
> >> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261
>
> Scroll to the bottom of the page and download; Source RPM
> NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm
>
> Then as root from the console or xterm session;
>
> rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm rpm -ivh
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.i386.rpm
>
> Or download and build your own;
> Kernel Tar File NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz
>
> example% tar -xvzf NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz example% cd nforce
> example% make
> example% su
> Password: ******
> example# make install
>
> And be sure to read;
>
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/ReleaseNotes_Linux_nForce_1.0-0261.html
>

Thanks again! I'll try it tonight (I work on Windows all day - night time is
for Linux in my world).

Matt