I've got a mainboard (ASUS A7N8X Deluxe) with an Nvidia Nforce2 Chipset. It has an integrated nvidia networking adapter and an integrated 3com networking adapter. Also i've got a 8139too networking adapter installed in one of the pci slots. When I bootup the rc2 LiveCD it hangs in INIT at following line: "Auto-scrambling root password for security" "Auto-detecting network modules..." "Scanning for eth16i..." I also tried noapic acpi=off and all other stuff but it always hangs at eth16i. Only thing I can do is nonet. Then it boots up normally. I need to modprobe nvnet manually then and dhcpcd eth0. After that I can start to use the livecd.
Nvidia drivers non-GPL?
Yeah, the NVIDIA net drivers are closed source and therefore non-GPL... Well surly you could fix that bug. It would be ugly but it would probably work. You could load nvnet prior to loading eth16i. After loading nvnet your script could check via return code or via lsmod if the driver has been successfully loaded. If it has been successfully loaded the mainboard is a NForce or NForce2 Chipset mainboard and the eth16i will crash. So you continue loading other networking drivers except the eth16i, you just exclude it and write something like "Won't probe eth16i, please insmod manually". Of course if the nvnet driver didn't load you know that isn't a NFORCE mainboard and you can probe the eth16i. the script should look somethink like this: 0. net detection script is started 1. load nvnet 2. check if it has been loaded 2a. continue loading all drivers except eth16i (when 2 was true) 2b. continue loading all drivers (when 2 was false) How about that?
nforce2 boards aren't supported by the linux kernel yet. give it time, friends, they are working on it.
This bug shouldn't have been closed.
Drobbins, not sure what i can do about this as far as the kernel goes. nvnet isnt gpl, so i cant touch it in the kernel. The nonet usage does not seem out of line to me when your talking about unsupported (or very little support) hardware. If you know of a way i can fix this, let me know. Harald, gs-sources has the recent nforce2 ide fixes, and the asus 3c59x fixes.
What about my fix suggestion?! Or won't that crash happen with the new gs-sources anymore?!
db fix
