Nforce3 Chipetset Question

[Daedra]

Do I still need to use the nvidia supplied driver for my ethernet and sound card, or is there a support module for my ethernet card in the 2.6 kernels? I know the newest version of alsa has a driver for my sound card, but im wondering about the network card, or do I just need to use nvnet?

thanks

[bwkaz]

2.6.9 has CONFIG_FORCEDETH, which is marked experimental. I have no idea how well it works, though.

Since it's experimental, you need to turn on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (aka "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" under "Code maturity level options" in menuconfig) to see it.

Also in menuconfig, CONFIG_FORCEDETH is Device Drivers --> Networking support --> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --> Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL). The kernel module will be named forcedeth.ko.