Re: Nvidia NIC and SUSE 9.0

From: Synchrodude (me_at_here.com)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:55:54 -0800

Thomas Tootle wrote:

> Greetings,
> I can't seem to get they onboard NIC with the Nvidia Nforce2 chipset
> working with SUSE 9.0. I loaded the driver from Nvidia and used Yast to
> configure it but the boot log shows eth0 as failed. When I go back into
> Yast it has the correct IP address, subnet mask, gateway, DNS servers and
> nvnet module. But it won't ping or connect to the net. Been googling but
> unsuccessful. I'm running a dual boot system and all works fine in WinXP
> so it isn't hardware but operator failure. Pointers gratefully accepted.
>
> Thanks,
> T

What Mobo and do you have the latest BIOS update for it? If not you might
need to flash your BIOS and then try and load the Nforce drivers. Also you
did load the Nforce drivers and not the video drivers right? :) just to
make sure.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261 

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