nforce on Red Hat 8.0 ?

[Blacklister]

Someone has instructions to install nforce drivers on Red Hat 8.0 and make the nvnet work? I tried with NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0241.tar.gz but I'm still unable to activate the card. I get this error message from my system:

"nvnet device does not seem to be present, delaying eth0 initialization."

Please help me :confused:

Also NVIDIA Graphic drivers were successfully installed but, it take a long time to load first image on x startup, is this normal?

[DaMaxx]

man you arent the only one. Have you gotten the sound to work? I cant get nvnet or the sound to work at all. and I am still waiting on an update for RH8 for the nforce drivers that the support from nvidia had said was going to be out three weeks ago.

This is the reply I had gotten from the Linux support team at nVidia on Oct 5.

"We expecting to have new RPMs out this week. IN the mean time, try using
insmod -f to force the driver install. The conflict is in the binary header
info, not in the code itself."

[halibut007]

any luck with this method? Does it work with src? (tar or src.rpm)?

Thanks

[Andy Mecham]

I tried with NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0241.tar.gz but I'm still unable to activate the card. I get this error message from my system:
Is your ethernet card enabled in your SBIOS? Are you sure your nForce board has the NVIDIA NIC on it? Some nForce boards shipped with a NIC from a different vendor. If that's the case, you'll need to use the driver appropriate to that NIC, and not the NVIDIA driver. You can confirm this by looking at the output of 'cat /proc/pci' and finding the section describing the ethernet device.

The sound driver that the NVIDIA sound card uses is the i810_audio driver. Most recent distros should work out of the box with the card. The driver that comes in the NVIDIA nForce package is a patched i810_audio intended for distributions who didn't include the newer version.

If you're not getting audio and the i810_audio module is inserted (along with ac97_codec and friends), you should check that you're plugged into the correct output, and that your mixer levels aren't muted.

--andy

[jsampson69]

Until nvidia release RH 8.0 compatable rpms there isnt any thing u can do about the "nvnet device does not seem to be present, delaying eth0 initialization." error, however u can force redhat to find your nvnet device..... issueing insmod -f nvnet command in your console will force the module, but if your like me u wont want to do this every single time u reboot your machine, so edit your /etc/rc.local file and add something to the end of it like
/sbin/./insmod -f nvnet
save and reboot, u will still get "nvnet device does not seem to be present, delaying eth0 initialization." but dont stress your nvnet module will be loaded, and will work just fine. As for sound support i installed the alsa drivers from http://www.alsa-project.org/ hopefully nvidia will start releasing decent linux drivers in the near future.