Nvidia Nforce2 Integrated NIC

[Orb360]

are there any cheatcodes to allow me to use the integrated nic on my Nforce2 board, or am I going to have to go d/l a driver. Knoppix just says no NIC found

[iscarib]

I have the same problem but booting from the HD Installation. In the boot screen, It seems everything goes well since appear a line telling "eth0 devices found, sending dhcp broadcast (backgrounding)" or something like that. I made lsmod and I can see "forcedeth" loaded, i made "modprobe forcedeth" and nothing happened (I think this is Ok, isn't it?). But, in KDE, I ran the configure network card script in the knoppix menu and it said "sending dhcp brodcast to eth0: failed", and in the control center I only can see the active loopback in the network interfaces screen.
What I am forgotten? What I made wrong?
Can anybody help me?
Thanks a lot!!!!!

AMD XP2600+ 512 Mb nForce2 Knoppix 3.4 kernel 2.6.5

[mzilikazi]

Those NICs should *just work* as that driver is part of the kernel now. Orb360 try:
lsmod
and see if forcedeth is there.

iscarib try:

dhclient eth0

[Orb360]

I downloaded the new image and it works fine... But I'd still like to use my previous image (Knoppix-STD) with my new mobo.... but since I don't have a HD to spare to remaster the new image.... I guess I'll just have to wait until Knoppix STD remaster's theirs...

[iscarib]

mzilikazi,
Thanks for your tip, but it doesn't work for me or I don't know how to do it work. When I try with "dhclient eth0" in console, an error message "command dhclient not found" appear. Have I include this command in any file?

Orb360,
Are you booting from CD or from HD installation?
Did the new Knoppix image recognize the nForce NIC well?

All of them,
In modconf I see the forcedeth module loaded. Also, I see forcedeth in lsmod, but I can't see the nForce NIC in the control center, in the network interfaces appart. Have anybody any idea?
Thanks a lot in advance!!!

Rodrigo.

[OErjan]

should it not be pump eth0?
check if the module is loaded (lsmod) and then check what is said about network (ifconfig) post here if uncertain.

[iscarib]

OErjan,
Thanks a lot! I will try it, but, I have to type "pump eth0" in console or I must put this line into any file?
Thanks!

[OErjan]

just in console for now. output from the two comands
dmesg|grep eth and
ifconfig may further help me help you.
my guess is that you might have to edit the setup of your runlevel to get it to autoconfigure corectly, it might be down for some reason, check if
ifconfig eth0 up THEN
pump eth0 works (as root).
the comand could be written in one line like so:
sudo ifconfig eth0 up&&pump eth0.

[iscarib]

Oerjan,
look at this:

root@cawendio:~# dmesg|grep eth
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.25.
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01695:1000 bound to 0000:00:04.0
root@cawendio:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:50:60:A4
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4116 (4.0 KiB) TX bytes:1368 (1.3 KiB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x5000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:500 (500.0 b) TX bytes:500 (500.0 b)
When I tried with the other "combined command" line, i get the next error message:

root@cawendio:~# ifconfig eth0 up&&pump eth0
pump: no extra parameters are expected
:( What do you think?
Notice that in the boot screen say "network device eth0 detected. sending DHCP broadcasting (backgrounding)" or something like that. Why kernel detect eth0 in the booting and when I am in KDE I don't find any eth0?
I'm a complete newbie in linux, and I don't know what's happen!
Thanks!

[OErjan]

oops, i was tired when i typed that. no eth... after pump, like this.

ifconfig eth0 up&&pump
what does
lsmod say?

[iscarib]

OErjan,
nothing... look at this:

root@cawendio:~# ifconfig eth0 up&&pump
Operation failed.
root@cawendio:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
atmtcp 11520 0
atm 44076 1 atmtcp
firmware_class 11520 0
snd_mixer_oss 19200 0
snd 50692 1 snd_mixer_oss
via_agp 9984 0
sworks_agp 11424 0
sis_agp 9600 0
nvidia_agp 10140 1
intel_mch_agp 12044 0
intel_agp 18968 0
efficeon_agp 10624 0
ati_agp 10636 0
amd_k7_agp 10124 0
amd64_agp 12872 0
ali_agp 9600 0
autofs 19584 1
af_packet 21636 0
nls_iso8859_1 8320 0
nls_cp437 9984 0
agpgart 32204 11 via_agp,sworks_agp,sis_agp,nvidia_agp,intel_mch_ag p,intel_agp,efficeon_agp,ati_agp,amd_k7_agp,amd64_ agp,ali_agp
i810_audio 34704 2
ac97_codec 19840 1 i810_audio
soundcore 12000 4 snd,i810_audio
forcedeth 17920 0
parport_pc 38176 0
parport 39104 1 parport_pc
8250 34208 0
serial_core 23168 1 8250
hci_usb 16896 0
bluetooth 50148 1 hci_usb
evdev 12416 0
joydev 13504 0
tsdev 9984 0
hid 46400 0
usb_storage 67072 0
megaraid 40904 0
ohci1394 33920 0
ieee1394 305552 1 ohci1394
ohci_hcd 20864 0
uhci_hcd 33416 0
usbcore 94420 7 hci_usb,hid,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ds 17920 0
yenta_socket 17664 0
pcmcia_core 59136 2 ds,yenta_socket
thermal 15760 0
processor 21440 1 thermal
fan 7564 0
button 9240 0
battery 12556 0
ac 8204 0
ide_cd 39680 0
ide_scsi 17668 0
rtc 15560 0
ext3 106152 1
jbd 68256 1 ext3
as you can see, forcedeth is running, but not used.
I don't know why...
new 17-05-04 Knoppix image just finished to download, I'm burning it and try with this. I will keep you posted.
Thanks!!!
Rodrigo.

[zentu]

The new one works great, I have had no problems with my system, or the one that I just built for my buddy, it works great from the CD... I don't even have the issue from the screwed up scsi Driver with the Serial ATA/ MCP chipset issue any more, I just insert and boot.

[mzilikazi]

Tried /etc/init.d/networking restart yet?

[ktheking]

Try the overclockix cd with integrated NVIDIA drivers ....
I think this has a better chance to work ... :D

http://overclockix.octeams.com/

These guys !!! ROCK !!!

[arkaine23]

Why thank you. :D

Because I cater to hardware enthusiasts and overclockers, Nforce2 support has been a major point for all versions of Overclockix. Until I can update the 2.6 kernel, Nforce2 nic's will only work in Overclockix's 2.4 kernel.

http://overclockix.octeams.com

Sadly Overclockix development has stalled out temporarily. I don't have a net connection at home right now since I just moved across the country and am still getting a job and getting settled (and married!!! :o ).

Anyway, a third release version of Overclockix 3.4 will soon replace the two current iso's. The only real change will be a bugfix for the custom desktop configs.

Version 3.4 is the one I recommend right now. Only major issue is that there wasn't room for openoffice.

3.4_V2 has openoffice, but no XFCE. Also all the custom desktops will only work if you hdd-install, which is a major bummer.

Soon-to-be-released 3.4_V3 will be the same as V2, but the custom desktop configs will work when run live from CD. I also might update the kernels to be the same as the current version of Knoppix 3.4 (2.6.5 instead of 2.6.1).



I do have one helper (overdoze) who has been maintaining the Overclockix_LTSP release which is a specialized remaster of Knoppix 3.3 that is setup for folding@home using the Linux terminal server (LTSP) to PXE-boot diskless clients.


http://overclockix.octeams.com/snapshot20.jpg