Guest Agentbolt Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 Hi guys, I'm not sure where to start with a question like this, but this looks good. I JUST got introduced to Linux like 2 days ago, and I figured I wanted to try it out. I've got a dual boot system here with LILO, WinXP and Mandrake 9.2 Through XP I know that my sound system and internet connection work fine. And under Mandrake, in the hardware configuration area, it recognizes both of them fine. It could be a driver issue, but since both of these are run onboard by the motherboard, I'm wondering if maybe Mandrake isn't compatible with them? I didn't check on the website but it's such a well known model that I can't believe it wouldn't be supported. My specs: Abit NF7 Rev. 2 motherboard AMD Athlon processor (2500 OCed to 3200 thru BIOS) 512 MB Geil RAM ATI Radeon 9800SE Vid Card Nothing at all obscure there, it's a configuration a lot of people use. Anyways, when Mandrake is booting, nothing fails. When it's closing, it mentions NMB services failing (SMB services close okay) then a few lines later down it says it is initializing "kill all" and both NMB and SMB services fail to close. Those aren't referring to the northbridge or southbridge of my motherboard, are they? Anyways, the hardware manager does recognize all my hardware fine and says it's all working correctly. Sound and network are the only two functions that aren't working. I know next to nothing at all about Linux, if someone could take pity on me and explain what I should try doing to fix the situation, I would be eternally grateful. Kyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 Hi guys, I'm not sure where to start with a question like this, but this looks good. I JUST got introduced to Linux like 2 days ago, and I figured I wanted to try it out. I've got a dual boot system here with LILO, WinXP and Mandrake 9.2 Through XP I know that my sound system and internet connection work fine. And under Mandrake, in the hardware configuration area, it recognizes both of them fine. It could be a driver issue, but since both of these are run onboard by the motherboard, I'm wondering if maybe Mandrake isn't compatible with them? I didn't check on the website but it's such a well known model that I can't believe it wouldn't be supported. My specs: Abit NF7 Rev. 2 motherboard AMD Athlon processor (2500 OCed to 3200 thru BIOS) 512 MB Geil RAM ATI Radeon 9800SE Vid Card Nothing at all obscure there, it's a configuration a lot of people use. Anyways, when Mandrake is booting, nothing fails. When it's closing, it mentions NMB services failing (SMB services close okay) then a few lines later down it says it is initializing "kill all" and both NMB and SMB services fail to close. Those aren't referring to the northbridge or southbridge of my motherboard, are they? Anyways, the hardware manager does recognize all my hardware fine and says it's all working correctly. Sound and network are the only two functions that aren't working. I know next to nothing at all about Linux, if someone could take pity on me and explain what I should try doing to fix the situation, I would be eternally grateful. Kyle Dont worry about the NMB and SMB. they arent your motherboards NOrth and SOuth bridges. Just ignore that.. I assume that the modem on your motherboard is dialup? In that case follow these instructions i wrote on how to deal with dial up modems -- winmodems http://aslan.no-ip.com/~iphitus/linux/cont...t.php?content.2 For the sound, Could you run lspci -v and copy here what it says. Keep going! iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 I have the same problem with no sound too.... Perhaps you can fix mine too? :D When I enter that command get this response. 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8374 P4X400 Host Controller/AGP Br idge (rev 03) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b003 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff Memory behind bridge: e8000000-e9ffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-dfffffff Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture ( rev 11) Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems, Inc. (Wrong ID) PCTV pro (TV + FM stereo re ceiver) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18 Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11 ) Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems, Inc. (Wrong ID) PCTV pro (TV + FM stereo re ceiver, audio section) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18 Memory at ea001000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3053 (rev 96 ) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0106 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18 I/O ports at d000 Memory at ea002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [uHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21 I/O ports at d400 Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [uHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21 I/O ports at d800 Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [uHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21 I/O ports at dc00 Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) (prog-if 20 [EHC I]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19 Memory at ea003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b003 Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/ C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b003 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at e000 Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 A udio Controller (rev 50) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b003 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22 I/O ports at e400 Capabilities: <available only to root> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [siS] SiS315PRO PC I/AGP VGA Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0c26 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 39, IRQ 16 BIST result: 00 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) I/O ports at c000 Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled Capabilities: <available only to root> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Agentbolt Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 (edited) Thanks for the hint man, I'll run that line in I'm assuming the Terminal as soon as possible. However, my onboard internet is a LAN connection, sorry to have not made that apparent at first. It's not really a modem, it's the LAN connection I'm trying to set up. When I run the Wizard it either says "No Ethernet Card detected" if I try to set up a cable connection, or it just does nothing at all and brings me back to the setup list if I try to install my LAN. Edited May 23, 2004 by Agentbolt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 If you're using the stock kernel with 9.2, you'll probably need to install the nvidia drivers. Click on the "Downloads" link at the top of the page and get the 0261 src.rpm. You'll also need to get your kernel source. Type "uname -r" (no quotes) to see what kernel you are running and download the matching kernel source from http://www.kernel.org Install the kernel source rpm first, then compile and install the nvidia src.rpm using "rpmbuild --rebuild name-of-file.src.rpm" as root. That will build a rpm for you and put it in /usr/src/somewhere (I forget where exactly,I'm not on Linux right now). Near the end of the compilation there'll be a line telling you where the file went. Install the rpm If all goes well, run Drakconnect, select the nvnet driver and you should have a working LAN There's another thread on this here, which might give more details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Agentbolt Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 No Dice. I've installed the source for my Kernel (2.4.22) and that all went fine. When I went to the terminal to have it compile the 0261 src.rpm file, it gave me two errors *CANNOT WRITE TO %SOURCE/blah/blah* *0261 src.rpm cannot be installed* I have plenty of free space and I was Root when I did it, but it didn't want to install it. I did accidently just double click the 0261 src.rpm file after I installed the source, but it didn't seem to do anything. Any other ideas? Sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 What command did you use to compile the src.rpm? If I had downloaded the file to /home/downloads, for instance, I would cd to that directory, then su to root and put rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm Don't forget, case-sensitive It seems from the error you gave that the name of the src rpm wasn't complete, unless you edited the error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Agentbolt Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 (edited) Hey all, Doing a quick search indicated that I needed to be in the Terminal as Root to be able to install any of this stuff (duh) so I figured out how to switch users, installed the package and everything works well now. Thanks for all your help Edited May 24, 2004 by Agentbolt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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