Mandrake 9.2 and nForce2 - compatible?

[Megatomic]

I looked all over the Mandrake site for an answer to this question and I searched the Mandrake hardware database for an answer as well but I found nothing. Does anyone know if Mandrake 9.2 will support the nForce2 chipsets natively? I would hope that NV LAN and NV APU would be supported, too.

Thanks for any input.

 

[SKORPI0]

Works on my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Mobo (rev1.04, 1004 bios). Did not have any problem setting up LAN. Networked with other systems running Windows XP.

 

[drag]

You have to install the propriatory Nvidia drivers. They are aviable from the same place as the video drivers. The "nforce" drivers... I don't think they make a distiction between nforce and nforce2.

Nvidia doesn't realy allow these distros to distribute the drivers allong with the OSes, and they don't help developers develope open source versions of it.

They work, but I don't like that. Sold my nforce2 chaintech board and bought one with a Via kt400 chipset. Hopefully that board is more Linux-friendly.

But the drivers from Nvidia DO work. If you need to use the onboard Nic to connect to the internet, you have a bit of a chicken and the egg problem, since their is no linux nic drivers for most nforce boards. So download and put them on a CD or floppy (if it fits) before you begin the Mandrake install.

The nvnet is the module for the Lan, also their was a agp driver, too.

 

[XBoxLPU]

It is

As drag said, inststalling the nvidia chipset drivers does work. Also with 2.4.22 kernel, nvidia agp support is built into the kernel..


9.2 was released today

 

[Alex]

yeah i was about to say... when i installed mandrake 9.1 it automatically detected the onboard nic and i used it to download the nvidia drivers...lol

 

[Megatomic]

I never installed Mandrake 9.1 on my NF2 board, when I go to install it my system hangs at a black screen with the keyboard LEDs flashing. I based my question on using Knoppix 3.3 which couldn't detect the NV LAN function of my motherboard.

I'm glad to hear that their is support in Mandrake 9.2 though, I just hope I can install it.

 

[JustMike]

Do yourself a favour and get a supported PCI Ethernet card... I have a Soltek 75FRN2-L (nForce2) and use an Intel card. Everything works just fine and I don't have to worry about building the nForce LAN driver every time I update the kernel. I am disappointed with Nvidia's lack of cooperation and will not buy any more Nvidia products in the future.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: JustMike
Do yourself a favour and get a supported PCI Ethernet card... I have a Soltek 75FRN2-L (nForce2) and use an Intel card. Everything works just fine and I don't have to worry about building the nForce LAN driver every time I update the kernel. I am disappointed with Nvidia's lack of cooperation and will not buy any more Nvidia products in the future.

Nvidia still has the best Linux video drivers though.

 

[JustMike]

That's what I hear, but I don't have any specific graphics requirements (decent 2D is fine) and my ATI card is well supported.

 

[robisc]

FWIW, I have never had much luck with an Nforce 2 board and ANY distro of Linux that I have tried.

 

[drag]

IME

If you have ANY problems with hardware lockups the 1st thing you should do is to turn off APCI support.

append to your kernel line acpi=off

That feature f***s with more hardware then I care to name. It caused lockups in my nforce2 board during SuSE's install (I sold it to a freind(windows user) and bought a VIA kt400 chipset based board. MUCH nicer)

And it broke my on board nic card with my nice new VIA-based board.

Turning if off made it worked fine.

I don't know wiether it's the driver's fault or the hardware fault or a combination of both, but acpi support sucks.

Just another one of the irritating quirks of the x86 platform.