I tried the latest Knoppix Distro last night, help me out with something?

[Megatomic]

I tried the latest Knoppix distro (3.2 dated 9/5/03) last night and it was really really good. I only had one problem with it: it didn't see my onboard nForce2 NIC. No matter what I tried the OS wouldn't see the NIC. Does anyone have any guidance on how to make it work?

The coolest thing I noticed: I was able to browse my NTFS partitions and actually open files. I viewed some .mpgs, listened to some .mp3s, and opened some .docs in OpenOffice. I was VERY happy with this. If only I had internet access.

Thanks for any help.

 

[cleverhandle]

Looks like there's just no Knoppix support for it yet. No easy way to get around it unfortunately. If you're really serious, you could rebuild the distro with the appropriate drivers, but that would take some work.

 

[Megatomic]

Oh well, I can use Knoppix when I'm not planning to do any surfing. Perhaps the next build will have NF2 LAN support in it. If it does, I might just try a full install rather than using the Live CD.

 

[Budman]

maybe you can just put an old network card in there.

 

[Megatomic]

I don't want to have to open the case and pull the NIC everytime I want to go into WinXP though. I do have a 3Com 3C905C-TXM I could use if I needed however.

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
I don't want to have to open the case and pull the NIC everytime I want to go into WinXP though. I do have a 3Com 3C905C-TXM I could use if I needed however.

Why would you need to pull it out when going into Xp?

You can have 2 nic in a pc & it will run fine.

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
I don't want to have to open the case and pull the NIC everytime I want to go into WinXP though. I do have a 3Com 3C905C-TXM I could use if I needed however.

Any reason you can't use that NIC in XP also?

 

[Megatomic]

I'm anal. I like to keep my installs as clean as possible. My NF2 NIC works perfectly in WinXP, no need for another NIC. And I already have a hardware router for the other computers in the house, no need to set up my PC as a router for them.

 

[spamsk8r]

You can install the kernel modules from nvidia's website, I don't see why that wouldn't work. Just compile them and do a make install, then modprobe nvnet (I think).

EDIT: Nevermind, I just realized Knoppix is a CD-only distro. I have seen people who have created images with the drivers on them though. Or you could just pop the 3com in there and quit whining

 

[drag]

Eww,,, nforce2 sucks in linux. I had the misfortune in buying that godforsaken motherboard. I use it but it puts Nvidia in a bad light.

It's one thing to be pissy about using openning up the drivers for a high-end consumer-level 3d card to open source. But what makes them seriously think their is something to hide in the propriatory drivers for a slightly modified version of a commonly used ethernet card?

It's a modified REALTECH ethernet card. The cards were most computer stores have sales for buy 2 for 8 bucks each and we will throw the third one in for free... To bad they changed it enough to make it unuseable under the stock linux drivers and then made there own drivers, but made it illigal for Distros to include the drivers in their distrubution. Grrrr.

Anyways. Best bet is to download the drivers onto your windows partition then boot up with your knoppix cd and compile and install them. AFter you get that done upload the driver modual to a ftp server or a floppy disk or something and then boot up into windows and copy the file backdown to the ntfs partitions.

Of course if you use FAT32 partitions it makes this much easer.

Then after that you can just copy the nvnet module to your harddrive somehow, reboot back into knoppix, copy the file to /lib/modules/your kernel crap/proper/path/

the run depmod.

the modprobe nvnet.

then run the "ifup eth0" script, if knoppix uses that, OR set if up manually:
ifconfig eth0 you.ip.address
route add default gw your.gateway.address
cat "nameserver your.dns.server.address" >> /etc/resolv.conf


Then if that works (it should) then put all the commands you just did into a simple bash script, so that you can do all this stuff with one command.