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Redhat Linux and driver problems

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cazicthule

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2 things.....

1. Unable to find my logitech mouseman dual optical mouse

2. Unable to find my Epox 8RDA+ Motherboard's lan card. Realtech RTL8201BL PHY

Sigh... please help!

Thanks
 
well, that realtek chip is actually an invisible chip that only operates on a hardware level. what you actually need is the nforce-net modules (modprobe nvnet, i doubt if redhat provides them). if you know how to compile your own kernel, the 2.6.X-mmX series contains a reverse engineered driver for nvidia's nforce ethernet (it works flawlessly for me).
check nvidia.com for the official drivers.

can you further define "can't recognize" for us? does it work but only certain functions? not work period? usb? ps2?
 
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html
^ lan drivers

take a look at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (i don't know how redhat does it, if that doesn't exist the file is just XF86Config (no -4))
can you please post the section which looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" <<<chances are that's different
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" <<<that might be different
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" <<<that's probably not even there

It might be slightely different, but you should be able to find what i'm talking about.
 
Sigh, network still doesnt work... it doesnt let me activate that created device.

Any other ideas?
 
well i KNOW those are the correct drivers, and i KNOW they work.
what's going wrong i don't know
now i have never installed them by hand, all i have to do is
Code: 
emerge nforce-net
modprobe nvnet
dhcpcd (or rp-pppoe depending on how you connect)
The part which is different for redhat is that you have to deal with shitty ass fuck rpms. i know nothing about rpms, other than they SUCK. (yes, not helpful at all). what you'll need to do is read nvidia's readme and follow their directions for installing the rpm. then proceed with modprobe nvnet and dhcpcd

as for the mouse, can you please post the portion from XF86Config{,-4}

possible things of interest
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109936&highlight=nvnet
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109936&highlight=nvnet
http://www.pheran.com/nv7linux/ (yes it's an abit board, but it's the same hardware)
 
Got my mouse working by using a usb to ps2 adapter... not too much of a problem but it would probably be fixed by the same thing. Will go try the modprobe thing.
 
Odds are redhat did not include the nvnet driver you need to get the NIC working. So you need to download it from nvidia's website. How do you download it it when your NIC doesn't work?

1) you have a dual boot windows installation or a second computer, and download the driver either save it to a partition that linux can access or burn it on a CD

2) you install a PCI network card

3) You use a bootable linux CD that already has the driver, to download the driver, then save it onto your hard drive so you can install it in redhat

Actually installing the nvidia nforce chipset drivers is generally pretty easy.... It's the catch 22 of getting them that can throw you off.
 
I think the problem is that I have the redhat kernel ending with 8. Unfortunately it appears that the drivers arent backwards compatible. There are versions for 6 and 9 but no 8...

Arkaine... I have access :D (im posting arent I) Just not through linux. I saved it to disk and tried it through linux. And this is in no way easy!


I already tried disabling the motherboard auto-recognize and that didnt change anything.

Everything works up until the point when I try to activate the device and then it says it cant be found. Any other ideas?
 
I have always grabbed the kernel source tarfile from nvidia's site in order to install nvet and nvaudio. Perhaps that would work better than using an rpm.
 
Ok so I reinstall Linux, and then get the 2.4.20.30-9 (newest version) and I get a message something like this

Unable to recognize nvnet, delaying initialization

I rebuilt my rpm again and tried again, (with the correct nvidia driver dl) and it fails again.


I try to dl and compile the src.rpm and I get about 2000 errors..


Ok...now what? is there something I need to do to get the errors to go away...and even if I did...would it help?
 
Try Fedora, it's red hat but the community supported version which red hat bases it's "real" releases from.
 
How similar is fedora to redhat?

If you could post a list of the things most different between the two it would be appreciated.
 
Someone has to have this motherboard and linux...its a really popular model.

Still in need of help!
 
Have it. Works great. I use a custom version of Knoppix on it- Overclockix. Install to HDD took about 20 minutes. Nvnet driver worked out of the box.
 
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