Facelessmime Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 I just installed Mandrake 9.2 with the 2.4.22 kernel. I am having problems getting the on-board ethernet working on my motherboard. I have the MSI-K7N2 Delta motherboard with Nforce Chipset. I downloaded the Linux Nforce Drivers off the nvidia website. Since there is no package for Mandrake 9.2 I got the source file (NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz) and after extracting, tried to compile it with "make install". I keep getting errors though. Here is part of the error: install: cannot stat 'nvnet.o' : No such file or directory make[1]: ***[install] Error 1 Unfortunately I'm a total newbie. So the more detail, the better. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 Make sure thatyou have kernel sources installed. The file will be kernel-sources-2.4.22-mdk.i586.rpm, or something similar. Be sure the file matches your installed kernel. Mandrake 9.2 does not install the sources by default, and nothing can be compiled on the machine unless they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurking Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 Hi facelessmime. I'm still newbish too, I understand how you feel. Open a shell (commandline box) from K-> Terminals. I'm guessing you use KDE. At the prompt type in uname -a this will be your installed kernels. I guess you haven't updated and stuff. If not then it should be 2.4.22-10, if you updated recently then you should have 2.4.22-26. If you're on cable connection you have no worries, if on dialup you have to download 20-30Mb of sources, and if you want to update, more again. If you use mandrake update, it'll probably try to download from servers in France, will be slow, if you're in Australia, or USA. If you're in the states find some mirrors to download stuff from. We'll take from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 hope this isn't being to obvious - but did you run "make" first? It is a requirement for those drivers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facelessmime Posted February 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 (edited) yes I did run make and I got errors. I currently have the 2.422-10 kernel. Where should I get the sources for that? Edited February 14, 2004 by Facelessmime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowFoxLSU Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 You have a small problem, You need to install the kernel source, and Mandrake NO LONGER INCLUDES IT IN THEIR distro. It's the main reason why I switched from MDK. Anyway, get a CD-RW and a working internet connection and hunt down the kernel source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facelessmime Posted February 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 Well I have linux up and running now. I just had to get the kernel source and install it. Internet works now. Now on to bigger and better thing now. Thanks for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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