nForce 2 - network support in -CURRENT?

Scott Lambert lambert at lambertfam.org
Sat Mar 13 10:33:24 PST 2004


On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:57:58PM -0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> I've just purchased a new box to replace my dying one.  Having utterly
> failed to think the hardware support issue through I just bought a
> cheap one - with an nForce2 Ultra chipset (it's the Shuttle SN45G
> system).
>
> A quick trawl suggest that, as yet, -CURRENT doesn't yet support the
> network chipset, though somebody has/had work in progress (as of
> October 2003).  Does anybody know what the state of play is?
>
> I can drop a spare PCI network card in, but it'll require a little
> rework as I'm currently running a multi-port serial card out of it and
> the box only has one PCI slot :)

If there isn't a native driver, you can always try the ndis driver.  If
that doesn't work, I bet Bill Paul would like to know about it.
 
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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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