Does the latest Knoppix CD detect the nForce2 onboard LAN?

**audioaficionado** · 08-21-2003, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Stephen

Originally Posted by Mica

Is there any time listed yet for when the nForce 2's nics will be supported in Knoppix?

They will not be unless Nvidia changes their terms of license.

nVidia has the drivers for Linux. All someone would have to do is compile them for Debian and set it up to auto detect. It's already been done in some custom Knoppix CDs. Arkane23 did already on his Overclockix_Eidolon.iso

**Stephen** · 08-21-2003, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by audioaficionado

nVidia has the drivers for Linux. All someone would have to do is compile them for Debian and set it up to auto detect. It's already been done in some custom Knoppix CDs. Arkane23 did already on his Overclockix_Eidolon.iso

Originally Posted by Alex de Langraff

Legally, the Linux Exception does allow Nvidia-licensed modules to be included
and distributed (i've contacted nvidia about including them in my derivative,
and they had absolutly no problems with it, which is why i've included it
myself). Klaus has objected that the zlib-compression used would modify the
binary, and thus violate the license (which is correct), but again I've
contacted Nvidia and they stated that 'compressing' should be seen as any sort
of compression, not being library-dependant. Now I'm personally not going to
whine about the difference (having personal confirmation), but this is a
difference serious enough for it to not be included in either Debian non-free or
Knoppix, both using different compression types and thus, if the license is
taken literally, would be incompatible for even distributing it.

Note that this was about the XFree86 driver, but the same would apply for the
nforce driver supplied by Nvidia.

Cheers, and IANAL,
Alex

From a post on the developers list by the developer of Morphix.

**audioaficionado** · 08-21-2003, 10:20 PM

Well why didn't someone mention this in bug fix 101 instead of leaving us twisting in the wind.

nVidia also gave the guy who wrote the Omega drivers a ration of crap so he won't write any more nVidida tweaked drivers.

I think I'll buy something other than nVidia next time.

**Stephen** · 08-21-2003, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by audioaficionado

Well why didn't someone mention this in bug fix 101 instead of leaving us twisting in the wind.

nVidia also gave the guy who wrote the Omega drivers a ration of crap so he won't write any more nVidida tweaked drivers.

I think I'll buy something other than nVidia next time.

I've already returned my new card for this very reason were not good enough for them, then my money's not good enough for them either.

**arkaine23** · 08-22-2003, 01:26 AM

http://overclockix.octeams.com there are 2 different 699mb ISO's on this page. The second is the newer one.

New overclockix is out, but the new applications in it are not available in kde's menu. You have to launch them from a termnial. Seems apt-get upgrade somehow broke things, and I've been unable to update the KDE menu no matter how hard I try. Fluxbox and icewm menus work though, but they refuse to accept my submenu for custom scripts and my alterations aterm and eterm which would make those terms transperant. You can still do my custom scripts and have transperant terms by using a terminal to launch them.

aterm -tr -sh 50 (is a nice transperant term)

ooffice (for openoffice1.1)
gmplayer (for mplayer)
ogle-gui (for ogle)
firebird-mozilla (for firebird)