Nforce drivers

[James1956]

I found lan and sata driver 1.25. Here the instruction

Linux Driver Disk Readme

For Fedora Core 7

Version 1.25 [Mar. 20th,2007]

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INTRODUCTION

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This archive provides drivers for SATA and LAN controller of NVIDIA nForce 550/570/590

and NVIDIA nForce professional 3600/3400/3050.



This Linux distribution ships with the in-box SATA & PATA & LAN drivers which include

the above chipsets support. As such, a driver disk for installation of Linux is unneccesary.

After installing Linux, please update the LAN & SATA driver to latest version with rpm package

provided, and the 'initrd.img' file will be updated as part of the installation of the

driver rpm package so that the new SATA driver will be combined into the pre-existing

'initrd.img' image file



Section 1 provides instructions for installing latest SATA and LAN drivers onto an existing

Linux installation.



Section 2 list the miscellaneous problem and information when running the FC7 on NVIDIA platform.



1) Install the SATA and LAN driver package on existing system

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1.1) If you install the Fedora Core 7 before, you just need to run below command:



in 32bit OS: rpm -ivh nvlan-fc7-0.62-1.25.i686.rpm

rpm -ivh nvsata-fc7-2.1-1.25.i686.rpm

in 64bit OS: rpm -ivh nvlan-fc7-0.62-1.25.x86_64.rpm

rpm -ivh nvsata-fc7-2.1-1.25.x86_64.rpm

Please append '--replacefiles' or '--force' parameter if it reports file conflict.



note:

'initrd.img' file will be updated as part of the installation of the SATA driver rpm

package so that the new SATA driver will be combined into the pre-existing 'initrd.img'

image file, the original file will be backuped with '-nv' extension,

for example: initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img-nv, please specify the old initrd image file in

grub options if encounter the problem with the new one.



2) Miscellaneous

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2.1) If need compile the sata_nv.ko file from source we provided with your Makefile, please make sure

the necessary Kernel header files ('scsi.h','scsi_typedefs.h','scsi_obsolete.h') are copied from

the Kernel source directory. (For FC7, refer to "http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/source/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.src.rpm" for kernel source package)

For forcedeth.ko, just copy the forcedeth.c and Makefile to same directory then make it.



2.2) List the driver modules for your information:

sata_nv.ko: nVidia SATA controller driver, locate at /lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/drivers/scsi/

forcedeth.ko: nVidia LAN controller driver, locate at /lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/drivers/net/

Can anyone tell me if this will with fc9? Is there a easier way of doing this?

[Seve]

Hello:
I doubt that there is a need to install any 3rd party nforce drivers as I believe Fedora's kernels include the latest drivers.
See this Post for more information.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=73925
You can also do a search for forcedeth.ko and sata_nv.ko on your own system to see that they are included.

Seve

[James1956]

no forcedeth.ko and 2 for the sata_nv.ko. I'm not sure what the nvidia post really means.

The (deprecated) NFORCE driver package which NVIDIA had previously distributed via its website, is no longer supported. Please use the in-kernel modules with 2.6.17 (or later) kernels for the same hardware support that the NFORCE driver package provided.

Specifically, the forcedeth driver provides support for the onboard NIC(s), and audio is supported via the i810_audio, or snd-hda-intel (for MCP55 and later chipsets) drivers. Please see here for more information:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.23.html

The driver package in the above URL includes pre-compiled RPMs and driver disks (which can be used for adding hardware support when installing the associated Linux distribution). Additionally, it provides the source for the forcedeth, sata_nv and amd74xx.c drivers. One thing to note is that the source is only included for distributions which do not already ship with the latest version of the corresponding driver.

To build forcedeth for your kernel kernel, create a new Makefile with the line:

obj-m := forcedeth.o


Then, type the command "make -C /usr/src/<kernel> SUBDIRS=$PWD modules" to build the forcedeth module for the kernel you specified.

I understand the package is not supported but isn't these drivers in kernel of 2.6.17 and above? I can only install 1.23 on fedora 6 or less? How do I get the lan to 1000 Gbs? Is the sata already install or how do I know they are working? Are there other RPM that add these driver to Kernels and where are they? Do I do the instruction on the forcedeth if I don't find anything else?