Nforce2 and redhat 9 lan wont work.

I rsently setup redhat 9 on my new nforce2 system. Redhat found the sound and Usb and all that on install, but didnt find the lan, I thought no problem I will just go get the Nvidia drivers, well I did that and it still doesnt work. It added the driver as a mod, but it just keeps coming up and saying cannot find card. I am wondering if anyone has had a similar problem. As a last resort I am going to just trow a 3com I have sitting around in but I would rather just use the on board.


My machine:
MSI Nfroce 2 Delta
Geforce 4 ti 4200


Dual boot xp and redhat 9
/dev/hda xp
/dev/hdb redhat 9

Well thanks for your time
Phil

Yep I had the same exactl problem with the nforce 2 on a gigaybyte motherboard.

What I did, was I bought a $15 Network Everywhere NIC, put it in and Red hat recognized it perfectly. You might try that.

Now also I believe theres a new kernel out 2.6.0 you might try downloading it and see if is supports your NIC better. I do believe that many people had problems witht the nforce chipset.

So either get the new kernel and see if it helps or buy a NIC.

Thats all the advice I have.

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Originally posted here by cheyenne1212
Yep I had the same exactl problem with the nforce 2 on a gigaybyte motherboard.

What I did, was I bought a $15 Network Everywhere NIC, put it in and Red hat recognized it perfectly. You might try that.

Now also I believe theres a new kernel out 2.6.0 you might try downloading it and see if is supports your NIC better. I do believe that many people had problems witht the nforce chipset.

So either get the new kernel and see if it helps or buy a NIC.

Thats all the advice I have.

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I dont think Redhat and Suse are going to incorporate the new Kernel until mid 2004.....

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/20...1218023149.htm

Ahhhh....

Well in that case, then your best bet would probably be to buy a cheap NIC.

I tried everything I knew to get it to work with both Suse and RH, but couldn't get it to work, and in the end just bought another NIC and put it in.

Thanks for the advice, I added a 3com and its working fine.