Nforce2 chipset

[Rick Stevens]

Mark Lane wrote:
> On May 14, 2004 04:59 pm, Jeff Ratliff <jefrat at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:29:45AM -0700, Hesty P wrote:
>>
>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>on it. Is there any pitfall with NForce 2 chipset that
>>>I should be aware of? I recall some problem with the
>>>onboard LAN with the nvnet driver. Is that resolved
>>>now?
>>
>>P.S.  The only "pitfall" I found with the nvnet driver is that
>>it won't compile without kernel source being installed. The error
>>messages don't tell you that, and neither do the instructions
>>from nVidia.
> 
> 
> I believe it far to assume that to compile a kernel module that the kernel 
> sources would need to be installed. Especially since the kernel uses it's own 
> set of headers.

Yes, it's fair.  It's also generally mandatory to have the kernel source
configured (at least through the "make xconfig;make dep" stages), unless
you're certain UP/SMP or memory models aren't involved in the module.
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