Looking for some ideas and help. I am bringing new machines up using kickstart via net booting and I have the new Asus A7N66-VM/LAN motherboards that have the all-inclusive nVidia chipset. I downloaded the rpm from nVidia and building from kernel 2.4.18-3. I have manually built one machine to confirm that the 2.4.18-3 kernel and the nvidia drivers for 2.4.18-3 are compatible with each other. This test machine works just fine. In the kickstart howerver, since it's network booting, I had to modify the initrd.img -- I modified initrd.img to include the new driver (nvnet.o), added the pci-id (0x10de:0x01c3) to the pcitable, made the appropriate changes in the moduels.dep, etc., and gzipped the initrd. back and put it into the kickstart /tftpboot/ hierarchy. Here are the problems: 1) when the machine is kickstarted, it stops and asks what driver to load, seeming like the pci-id info in the pcitable is not correct, but I gathered this information using the lspci tool. 2) More important than #1, is that after I select the nvnet module to load, it comes up with a number of unresolved symbols. It is a NON-GPL driver, however, a source RPM is distributed, but I have no sources to 2.4.18-3BOOT so I'm not sure where to go from here. I look forward to any help. If more information is needed, please ask. Regards, -- Cary Howell <chowell [at] xilogix [dot] com>
