Any plans to support nForce2 ethernet?

Harald Schmalzbauer h at schmalzbauer.de
Thu Mar 4 06:17:31 PST 2004


Am Donnerstag, 4. März 2004 14:43 schrieb Stephen Hocking:
> All,
>
> I have one of those nifty shuttle boxes with the nForce2 motherboard, and
> the onbaord ethernet isn't supported by 5.2.1. The kernel notes that
> there's an ethernet device there, but doesn't attach a driver to it. Doesn
> anyone plan to do this? There's a reverse engineered Linux driver for
> (forcedeth) asn well as nvidia's own drivers. My own rather hazy
> understanding is that it's a variant of the Realtek chipset.

A week ago I had such a box in my hands and I got it working perfectly with 
the NDISulator (project evil).
The steps where obvious, otherwise I would have made some notices. But I 
didn't, so it should be easy to get it working with the original XP driver.

-Harry

>
>
> 	Stephen
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