GPL ethernet driver for 2.4/2.6 series kernels -hchu

[RealityMage]

There is one minor problem - with forcedeth, it takes a while to start the eth0 device, while it's nearly instant with nvnet.

[hchu]

for me it's the other way round - nvnet slow, forcedeth fast.

[skermajo]

hi all.

RE kernel 2.6.0-test11

this might seem kinda newbie, but can someone point me in direction of the kernel config option that I need to check in make menuconfig to select the forcedeth module for compiling ?? I've patched the kernel, but I can't find the option!!

Thanks

skermajo
FIXED: after reading the source I realised I hadn't enabled experimental ! all good now. great drivers

[blueworm]

hi all.

RE kernel 2.6.0-test11

this might seem kinda newbie, but can someone point me in direction of the kernel config option that I need to check in make menuconfig to select the forcedeth module for compiling ?? I've patched the kernel, but I can't find the option!!

Thanks

skermajo

Device Drivers > Networking Support > Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) > Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet support.

You will need to have The following selected for this to show.
Ethernet 910 or 100Mbit)
EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers

[skermajo]

Thanks blueoworm.

I had that much figured out . .but forgot to enable experiimental (realised I needed it after reading the source). Thanks for the reply though!


skermajo

[blueworm]

I do, it'd certainlly serve as documentation to improve the current GPL driver. You can never have too much information.

Ok you are right the more documentation the better...

Happy Holidays...
Who cares if nvidia releases nvnet opensource!
forcedeth is better...

Because, possibly, they'd be more likely to release their GL drivers under some kind of opensource license.

But lets not kid ourselves we cannot possibly expect Nvidia to release Their GL
drivers ever...

[blueworm]

Its not looking like forcedeth is gonna make 2.6.1
2.6.1-rc1 has just been released and forcedeth is not included.
Nevertheless 2.6.1-rc1-mm1 is also out and includes forcedeth, hopefully it should be in by 2.6.2.

[mceachrw]

i just got mythtv working via these instructions: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/

i probably would have had a tough time doing it without all the rpms for the driver kernel modules. specifically, the ivtv driver. the down side is that everything pretty much depends on the kernel i have installed, i think.

my system works great as long as the nvidia mac is disabled. as soon as i enable it and install nvnet via nvidia's instructions, the system hangs momentarily about every 10-20 seconds. i notice it because my mouse cursor freezes. i have never had this problem with debian, slackware, or windows. it's working fine in windows now too.

i'm hoping forcedeth would make things better. is there a way to install forcedeth without a kernel re-compile? maybe, something similar to installing nvnet via make followed by make install. i don't want to have to go back and try to build everything again against a custom kernel.

[alexzapatka]

the freezing thing is a known problem with nvnet... far as i know no one has this with forcedeth, and you can adjust the interupt processiing with a module parameter just in case.

but there is no exteral build for forcedeth at the moment... probably wouldn't be to hard to put one together, but it is just as easy to patch...

i just got mythtv working via these instructions: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/

i'm hoping forcedeth would make things better. is there a way to install forcedeth without a kernel re-compile? maybe, something similar to installing nvnet via make followed by make install. i don't want to have to go back and try to build everything again against a custom kernel.

[reignzer]

I got this error while compiling the kernel on slack9.1, i already tried both forcedeth_2_4_patch.txt & forcedeth_2_4_patch_v23.txt. any solutions?

Code: Select all

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.24/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -DMODULE  -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=forcedeth  -c -o forcedeth.o forcedeth.c
forcedeth.c: In function `nv_probe':
forcedeth.c:1366: warning: implicit declaration of function `SET_NETDEV_DEV'
forcedeth.c:1366: structure has no member named `dev'
make[2]: *** [forcedeth.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.24/drivers/net'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_net] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.24/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
root@iacon:/usr/src/linux-2.4.24#