NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

[Hanasaki JiJi]

Was considering the purchase of a Asus A7N266-VM AA with the following 
chipsets.   What kernel is needed to support all features? (onboard 
video/audio/nic)?

Thanks.


North Bridge

Chipset Name:
nForce 220D Manufacturer: nVidia AGP FSB: 4X (Build-In) CPU Type: AMD 
Athlon XP and Duron CPU FSB: 200/266 Memory Type: DDR Memory FSB: DDR 
200/266 Max Memory: N/A

Sourth Bridge

  Chipset Name:
nForce MCP-D

Manufacturer:
nVidia Number Of USB: 6 Version Of USB: 1.1 Support IDE Data: ATA 
33/66/100 AMR/CNR/ACR* : CNR/ACR


http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=nforce_linux_v1.0-0233

Re: NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

[Alan]

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 21:11, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> Was considering the purchase of a Asus A7N266-VM AA with the following 
> chipsets.   What kernel is needed to support all features? (onboard 
> video/audio/nic)?

AGP isnt supported
IDE is vaguely supported as of 2.4.21pre
Audio is partially supported (no audio accelerator)
NIC is not supported (no docs)

Its very much a 'winputer'

Re: NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

[Matthew D. Pitts]

Unless you get the drivers from nVIDIA website.


> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 21:11, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> > Was considering the purchase of a Asus A7N266-VM AA with the following
> > chipsets.   What kernel is needed to support all features? (onboard
> > video/audio/nic)?
>
> AGP isnt supported
> IDE is vaguely supported as of 2.4.21pre
> Audio is partially supported (no audio accelerator)
> NIC is not supported (no docs)
>
> Its very much a 'winputer'
>
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Re: NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

[Jeff Garzik]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:24:13AM -0500, Matthew D. Pitts wrote:
> Unless you get the drivers from nVIDIA website.

Note that the nVidia NIC driver, at least, continues to have open
reports of crashing net drivers that get reported to me :/  Since
nVidia will not provide documentation, who knows if this will ever
get fixed.

I would recommend sticking a 3rd party NIC in the board, and avoiding
the nVidia on-board NIC like the plague.

It is also worth noting that many nForce boards come with 8139
on-board.  I guess some board makers don't trust the nVidia NIC
hardware either...

	Jeff

Re: NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

[Matthew D. Pitts]

Jeff,

> It is also worth noting that many nForce boards come with 8139
> on-board.  I guess some board makers don't trust the nVidia NIC
> hardware either...

Some nForce 2 boards will ship with a 3Com nic chip that is inbeded in the
system.

Re: NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

[Bryan Andersen]

I'm using an ASUS A7N8X (nForce2 chipset) with linux-2.4.21-pre3-ac4 + 
the patch for the __free_pages_ok oops, Subject: "[patch] 2.4.21-pre3-ac 
oops".  I also added the latest nForce drivers for both it's nic and 
audio, but they load with symbol mismatches.  I am using the nVidia NIC 
with the nvnet driver.  I haven't used sound yet as something isn't 
configured correctly yet, haven't tracked it down yet as that is low 
priority.  The system just became stable with the oops patch.  I have 
the 3Com NIC recognised, but not used.  Sofar the nVidia NIC is 
transmitting and receiving fine.  I transfered data to the system over 
the network in 100MBit full duplex mode on a switched network and it 
didn't hicup at all.  The transfer saturated the network for a few hours 
so it got a good workout.  The new copy md5sumed identicle to the 
original so there weren't hidden issues in the transfer.  For the long 
term, who knows how it will hold up.  I don't have any IEEE 1394, or 
serial IDE devices so they haven't been tested.  I haven't used USB yet, 
but it is recognised.  As of right now I'm doing testing for stability 
assesment and all looks good.

- Bryan

>>It is also worth noting that many nForce boards come with 8139
>>on-board.  I guess some board makers don't trust the nVidia NIC
>>hardware either...

> Some nForce 2 boards will ship with a 3Com nic chip that is inbeded in the
> system.
> 

Re: NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

[Alan]

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 15:24, Matthew D. Pitts wrote:
> Unless you get the drivers from nVIDIA website.

Which are binary only. So its still best avoided

Re: NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:47:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
 > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 15:24, Matthew D. Pitts wrote:
 > > Unless you get the drivers from nVIDIA website.
 > 
 > Which are binary only. So its still best avoided
 
For someone with far too much time on their hands, the
20KB binary object (complete with symbols) shouldn't be
too much work to reverse engineer 8)

Although Jeff seems to be think that the chip is a clone
of another existing NIC, so it may not be worth the effort
if $driver can be made to work with it by adding some IDs..

		Dave

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

Re: NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:31:30AM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:47:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>  > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 15:24, Matthew D. Pitts wrote:
>  > > Unless you get the drivers from nVIDIA website.
>  > 
>  > Which are binary only. So its still best avoided
>  
> For someone with far too much time on their hands, the
> 20KB binary object (complete with symbols) shouldn't be
> too much work to reverse engineer 8)
> 
> Although Jeff seems to be think that the chip is a clone
> of another existing NIC, so it may not be worth the effort
> if $driver can be made to work with it by adding some IDs..

Well, the IDE part in nForce certainly is a clone of another IDE, so
it's likely the NIC is as well. An idea comes to mind which one it could
be ...

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

Re: NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

[Anders Gustafsson]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:12:37PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> Well, the IDE part in nForce certainly is a clone of another IDE, so
> it's likely the NIC is as well. An idea comes to mind which one it could
> be ...

For more nvidia nforce speculations have a look at:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2947226


-- 
Anders Gustafsson - andersg@0x63.nu - http://0x63.nu/