EDIT:
finally, I managed to get mandrake installed and running KDE

But I have one big problem, mandrake can not detect the right network card.

I'm using the onboard LAN on my ASUS K8N-DELUXE motherboard. what driver should I select from the manual installation screen?

TNX!

did your mobo drivers CD come with a NIC card install drivers, I know my ASUS P4P800 - Deluxe came with a linux driver for my 3Com gigabit ethernet card, although it still uses a generic driver (Sk98lin or something like that)

yes, my motherboard came with drivers, bur only for the 2.4 kernel. and mandrake 10 has 2.6...
I tried them anyway, but they didn't work...

I also just tried the sk98lin driver, but no good either. my pc still says there is no lan card

What are the NAMES of the driver files provided for the 2.4 kernel?

not sure what NIC card you have on board, I have a 3com.

Tried to lookup the drivers on the Asus site, You have a K8N-E Deluxe right? I saw 32bit/64bit drivers on there, but they didn't specify what for.

NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0274.mdk82up_2.4.18_6.athlon.rpm
NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0274.mdk90up_2.4.19_16.athlon.rpm
NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0274.mdk91up_2.4.21_0.13.athlon.rpm
NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0274.mdk92up_2.4.22_10.athlon.rpm
NVIDIA_nvaudio-1.0-0274.athlon.rpm

this are the drivers I think I can use. other drivers are for other distributions like redhat

Eh, I'm looking for the names of the drivers in the files you downloaded to try to determine what type of hardware the NIC uses.

I wasn't really looking for the video stuff.

are those drivers not included in that file?
it's an ASUS K8N-E deluxe motherboard with onboard gigabyte-lan. it has the nforce chipset.

ain't that the correct ones?

EDIT:
this is the link: http://www.asus.com.tw/support/downl...xe&Type=Latest

I don't see any NIC drivers there.

Where are the NIC drivers that have been spoken of?

it's an NFORCE motherboard, I thought they would be included into that packet...


It may also be an other problem: I'm behind a router. can this be the problem? I can't find any drivers for it (it's an SMC 7004 ABR)

NFORCE is the motherboard's main "chipset".

That is this is a large integrated IC which contains all of the electronics which used to take an entire system board's full of other IC's to do.

This includes things like serial ports, parallel ports, northbridge and southbridge chips, PCI, AGP, etc.

It does not however incorporate the NIC cards which are seperate entities and chips/IC's on your motherboard.

If Linux cannot autodetect the NIC card you need to find out what the motherboard has integrated into it.

Usually this information is available on the specs pages of your motherboard's user manual.

See if you can dig this stuff up.

the manual says it's a

Marvell 88E1111 Gigabit LAN PHY

I was a bit confused because the drivers on the cd-rom where also called nforce drivers, and when I installed them, the LAN card was detected

Ok I've searched around and it is unlikely that you will find Linux support for this interface for a while.

The manufacturer is not forthcoming with specs and details and at the same time there is no equivalent driver that supports this NIC.

I haven't been able to find anything on the kernel sites indicating current developement either.

You may want to invest in a cheap nic card to plug into one of the PCI slots for the time being.

prolly the best idea. A good realtec chipset, or maybe a 3Com.

Yeah a 20.00 nic is far less painful.