Installing on a nForce3 250Gb chipset

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r3pek · Post by **r3pek** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:20 am

How do you guys do it?
is there any other way besides put another network card?
i'm asking because the ethernet is not supported in the current livecd's kernel

kefin · Post by **kefin** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:35 am

I have an ASUS K8N-E mb that uses the nForce 3 250gb chipset. When I was installing (using the 2004.1 cd), I had to plug in a generic network card. After I installed gentoo on my machine, I installed the Nvidia drivers for the nForce 3 board:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nfor ... 4_1.0-0283

After that, the onboard ethernet worked just fine.

-Kevin

Snooper · Post by **Snooper** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:55 pm

might just use sk98lin thats what my NIC uses it's a Marvell 8001 10/100/1000 on a Gigabyte K8NS Pro nForce3 250 MB

gour · Post by **gour** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:15 am

kefin wrote:I have an ASUS K8N-E mb that uses the nForce 3 250gb chipset. When I was installing (using the 2004.1 cd), I had to plug in a generic network card. After I installed gentoo on my machine, I installed the Nvidia drivers for the nForce 3 board:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nfor ... 4_1.0-0283

After that, the onboard ethernet worked just fine.

-Kevin

Next week I'm going to install Gentoo on DFI Lanparty nF3 board.

At the moment I have working ethernet with Realtek NIC.

Should I bother to find some minimal LiveCD with nF3 stuff support or to install using old Realtek and 2004.2 LiveCD?

Sincerely,
Gour

kefin · Post by **kefin** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:37 pm

gour wrote: Next week I'm going to install Gentoo on DFI Lanparty nF3 board.

At the moment I have working ethernet with Realtek NIC.

Should I bother to find some minimal LiveCD with nF3 stuff support or to install using old Realtek and 2004.2 LiveCD?

Sincerely,
Gour

I never got the 2.6.8 kernel to recognize the ethernet controller on my K8N-E motherboard and I had various problems getting everything to work with the new kernel, so I just went back to the old 2.6.7 kernel and used the nVidia drivers.

I haven't tried the 2004.2 LiveCD so I don't know if that would work with your mb, but for a first-time install using the LiveCD, you really don't need a net connection. The LiveCD contains all the sources you need to install gentoo. You can always compile the nVidia network drivers after you've successfully installed gentoo. That's what I did (and I did a full install from stage 1 using the 2004.1 LiveCD). After installing gentoo and getting the net connection to work, just 'emerge -u' your system/world.

-Kevin

LowReZ · Post by **LowReZ** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:28 pm

I recognized several hang-ups w/ the original nvidia driver.
The reverse engineered kernel driver is probably the best choice since it runs stable.

bradenm · Post by **bradenm** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:09 pm

For the install, I had to put in a D-Link network card, but once it's installed, I'm now using the forcedeth driver without any problems. (Kernel 2.6.8-r4)

gour · Post by **gour** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:24 pm

bradenm wrote:For the install, I had to put in a D-Link network card, but once it's installed, I'm now using the forcedeth driver without any problems. (Kernel 2.6.8-r4)

Which LiveCd?

Sincerely,
Gour

LowReZ · Post by **LowReZ** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:35 pm

Just take your livecd 2004.2 and manually modprobe forcedeth and modprobe ide-disk.
That's all I needed to install...

emerose · Post by **emerose** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 3:43 pm

for whatever reason, the forcedeth on 2004.2 didn´t work for me, but the one on this cd did:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... sc&start=0

that cd isn´t 64bit, though, so you have to use it to download the necessary sources (new kernel, grub, etc.) and then switch back to 2004.2 for a networkless install...

-sq

LowReZ · Post by **LowReZ** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 3:58 pm

Okay in case that forcedeth doesn't work save the original NVIDIA NForce driver (64bit edition) to another partition / disk before installing and load it instead.
Since you are using an Asus K8N-E Deluxe mobo - Just in case you are proud owner of an Audigy 2 ZS, have a look to the thread "ALSA on AMD64" below.

Cheers

Henning

bos_mindwarp · Post by **bos_mindwarp** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:09 pm

Got my new mobo+cpu today, went to install on my sata disk, but it doesn't show up (dmesg reports nvidia sata driver being loaded, but no /dev/sda entries were there).

edit: nevermind, I build the system allright, now I have this
for(;;) {
nv_sata: primary ...
nv_sata: secondary ...
}

and the kernel hangs there. disabling unused sata interfaces didn't help either.

grayskunk · Post by **grayskunk** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:36 am

I also have a K8N-E board. When installing with the 2004.2 disk run

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modprobe tulip
dhcpcd eth0

Mine worked after that.

Schizoid · Post by **Schizoid** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:24 am

ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/ge ... 64/livecd/

install-amd64-minimal-20041026.iso

I used this livecd when I had to reinstall. It boots with a 2.6.9 (I think, or it could have been 2.6.8 something, I can't recall) kernel and has the forcedeth module that supports the nforce3 250gb right out of the box.

I was very pleased to come across it as I didn't have another network card to use during the installation.

R-Type · Post by **R-Type** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:30 am

that minimal 20041026 image seems to hang on my msi 7030 board(nforce3 250gb with nvidia lan) while trying to load the sata_sis module. I can get past it with 'nodetect' and 'nohotplug' but when I go to load the aic7xxx module for my adaptec card (needed for my disks), it doesn't load.

Anyone know of any alternate images I can try that have both a current forcedeth and support for an adaptec 2940U2W card? I am really kind of stuck here since I have no way of bootstrapping my own amd64 cd.

*edit*
I know the IA32, and older AMD64 cds have a module for this card, so i cannot fathom why it would not be included on this one.