Kernel source

[Bryan J. Smith]

Arjan van de Ven <arjan at fenrus.demon.nl> wrote:
> I'm surprised... I thought fedora already came with the best driver
> for that hardware built in...

Not every MAC+PHY combination is supported for the GPL NIC driver
(forcedeth) in the stock kernel or via patches to the kernel (addec
by Red Hat).  So sometimes you want to load the nVidia NIC driver
(nvnet) in the meantime until the GPL NIC driver (forcedeth) catches
up.

Audio is another story, depending on if you are using 2.4 or 2.6. 
For 2.4, the nVidia Audio driver (nvaudio) is only OSS.  For 2.6 or
ALSA-enabled 2.4, nVidia does not offer a driver and relies on stock
ALSA.

I have several nForce 4x0 combinations and, for the most part, Fedora
Core 5 has worked out-of-the-box with the NIC, and the kernel's ALSA
for the sound.  So I'm curious as to what issues he is having with
Fedora Core 5?

Unless this is for Fedora Core 4?  In that case, I did run into such
with the shipping 2.6.11's forcedeth for the NIC, although the
updated 2.6.14's forcedeth worked fine: 
http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/12/linux-on-nvidia-c51nv44-nforce.html


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