nVidia 6100 ethernet driver

Hi,

I have a motherboard using the nVidia 6100 chipset, with its own network
interface chip.

Suse 10.1 correctly recognizes the 6100 chipset and the ethernet chip, but
the installed driver doesn't work. I can't even get an ethernet address
through DHCP from my router.

It looks like I'll need to recompile the kernel with the driver downloaded
from nVidia. I know this can work, as I did it with Xandros 3, but I'd
rather not use Xandros due to performance and control issues.

Does anyone know of a howto or something similar on recompiling the SUSE
kernel (with a driver patch)?

Thanks,

-Bruce Gendron

Bruce,

I don't think you have to recompile the kernel if this is an NForce board. Similar to the video drivers, you'll need the kernel sources and a compiler, but the rest will be done by the NVidia script available here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

Uwe

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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:39:44 -0400, Uwe Buckesfeld
<u.buckesfeld@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> I don't think you have to recompile the kernel if this is an NForce
> board. Similar to the video drivers, you'll need the kernel sources and
> a compiler, but the rest will be done by the NVidia script available
> here:
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
>
> Uwe
>
I have same chipset and the Nforce drivers work fine for me


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Uwe and Bill,

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm familiar with the NForce driver script
from my dealings with Xandros. With both Xandros and SUSE, the script
notifies the user: "No precompiled kernel interface was found to match
your kernel; this means that the installer will need to compile a new
kernel interface."

Fortunately, and unlike Xandros, the SUSE kernel source code is included
with the distro, so I don't have to download it through a non-functioning
ethernet adapter. :-0

Running the script, one has to accept the nVidia license agreement, then I
get the following messages: "Building kernel module." and "Error: the
NVIDIA kernel module was not created."

The log file is rather long, but the final 20% or so goes as follows:


In file included from
/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4/include/linux/dmapool.h:14,
from
/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4/include/linux/pci.h:558,
from
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.h:32,
from
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:22:
include2/asm/io.h: In function "check_signature":
include2/asm/io.h:308: warning: wrong type argument to increment
In file included from include2/asm/pci.h:93,
from
/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4/include/linux/pci.h:684,
from
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.h:32,
from
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:22:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4/include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h: In
function"pci_map_page":
/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4/include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h:49:
warningointer of type "void *" used in arithmetic
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c: At
top level:
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:217:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:220:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:223:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:226:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:229:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:232:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:235:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:238:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:241:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:244:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:247:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:250:
error:expected ) before string constant
/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.c:336:
warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[4]: ***
[/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet/nvenet.o] Error 1
make[3]: ***
[_module_/tmp/selfgz4142/NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1/nvnet] Error 2
make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2
-> Error.
ERROR: The NVIDIA kernel module was not created.



I'm in over my head here. It would take me a month or more to learn how
to make sense of this. Any help would be appreciated.

-Bruce

Bruce wrote:

> Fortunately, and unlike Xandros, the SUSE kernel source code is included
> with the distro, so I don't have to download it through a
> non-functioning ethernet adapter. :-0

Did you configure the kernel? As root,

cd /usr/src/linux
make cloneconfig
make prepare

then try running the script again.

Uwe

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Uwe,

Thanks again.

No, I hadn't tried configuring the kernel, but I did tonight, and nothing
changed.
Any other suggestions?
I've just queried nVidia to see if they have any suggestions.
I can't be the only person who has run into this.

-Bruce



On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:10:15 -0400, Uwe Buckesfeld
<u.buckesfeld@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> Bruce wrote:
>
>> Fortunately, and unlike Xandros, the SUSE kernel source code is included
>> with the distro, so I don't have to download it through a
>> non-functioning ethernet adapter. :-0
>
> Did you configure the kernel? As root,
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make cloneconfig
> make prepare
>
> then try running the script again.
>
> Uwe
>

Bruce wrote:

> No, I hadn't tried configuring the kernel, but I did tonight, and
> nothing changed.
> Any other suggestions?

You are running a 64bit kernel, aren't you?

Uwe


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Yes.

-Bruce


On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:14:03 -0400, Uwe Buckesfeld
<u.buckesfeld@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> Bruce wrote:
>
>> No, I hadn't tried configuring the kernel, but I did tonight, and
>> nothing changed.
>> Any other suggestions?
>
> You are running a 64bit kernel, aren't you?
>
> Uwe
>
>

Bruce wrote:
> Yes.
>

Sorry, no idea then, let's hope the folks in the NVidia forum can help you. Please report back here if you get a solution.

TIA
Uwe

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Bruce wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a motherboard using the nVidia 6100 chipset, with its own network
> interface chip.
>
> Suse 10.1 correctly recognizes the 6100 chipset and the ethernet chip, but
> the installed driver doesn't work. I can't even get an ethernet address
> through DHCP from my router.
>
> It looks like I'll need to recompile the kernel with the driver downloaded
> from nVidia. I know this can work, as I did it with Xandros 3, but I'd
> rather not use Xandros due to performance and control issues.
>
> Does anyone know of a howto or something similar on recompiling the SUSE
> kernel (with a driver patch)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Bruce Gendron
2 Suggestions:
1) cards are cheap buy one (assuming you have an extra pci slot) I actually
did this for a while when running the 10.1 beta
2) no idea if this works but found this patch (I have this board and didn't
need the patch)
http://groups.google.com/group/maili...7da0ca1e7939c9
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Not sure this would help but have you considered upgrading your bios?