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Here's an update (if I have any more updates before a response from someone else is posted I'll just edit this post). I found a file .xsession-errors in my home directory. I looked at it, and there was an error about /dev/dsp and permission denied. So I did chmod 666 /dev/dsp. Then I relogged in, and that was replaced by a message about playback rates. The icon on the top right still had a slash through it, and still said no sound device found, can't open /dev/sound/mixer. So I added a symbolic link from /dev/sound/mixer to the real /dev/mixer. Then I relogged in, and the .xsession-errors did not mention any playback rates, but still no sound, and it still said it can't load /dev/sound/mixer. So I changed the permissions to 666 for /dev/mixer, then relogged in. Now gnome thinks I have sound (at least according to the icon on the top right, which now I can use to set volume). I unmuted it, but still no sound. And now I can open aumixer (couldn't before). EDIT: Got it working. Turns out I had to tell every program to use ESD for sound, rather than what the program initially selected.

Hi folks, had such good luck here last time I'll try my next question here. I need some help getting the sound working. It's integrated sound. I installed the nforce drivers, and I got them installed properly (I think). I had to load the kernel headers and rewrite parts of the make file to point towards those kernel headers, and I set the gcc version to use 2.95 like my kernel was built with. By the way, this is on Debian, but I don't think the main problem is distro-specific. I added the following to /etc/modutiles/aliases: alias sound-slot-0 nvaudio which is what the nvidia readme said to add, then I ran update-modules. I also added "nvaudio" to /etc/modules. Anyway, my card is recognized (in some places), and the drivers are loaded, but my sound doesn't work. I haven't tried playing audio files, but gaim doesn't produce any sound, neither does any other system thing. I'm using Gnome, and if I click on the audio thing (a speaker icon that has a strike-mark through it) on the top right, I get the message "Couldn't open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer." I looked in /dev, and there's no sound folder; mixer is in /dev. So I tried created the folder sound, and within it creating a symlink from /dev/sound/mixer to /dev/mixer, and I even chmoded /dev/mixer to 777, but still no good. If I hold my mouse over the speaker icon, a tooltip says "No audio device." lsmod: Module Size Used by Tainted: P nvidia 1968320 14 (autoclean) apm 9116 1 (autoclean) nvnet 25952 0 (unused) nvaudio 34968 0 ac97_codec 9568 0 [nvaudio] soundcore 3204 2 [nvaudio] natsemi 15720 1 keybdev 1664 0 (unused) usbkbd 2848 0 (unused) input 3040 0 [keybdev usbkbd] usb-ohci 17472 0 (unused) usbcore 48000 0 [usbkbd usb-ohci] nvaudio and ac97_codec and soundcore are the drivers for the sound card. lspci -v (sound card part only): 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 8095 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at d400 I/O ports at d800 Memory at e4001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 One note - if I run sndconfig, it detects the card properly, then gives me the following error when trying to play a test sound: modprobe error The following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: init_module: No such device /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed Looks to me like it's trying to load a different driver (nforce installed the nvaudio driver). The i810_audio driver is present in the drivers directory (along with nvaudio). So what am I missing? I'm not familiar with configuring sound, but I've checked everything I've been able to find from searching. Thanks for the help.

Extra NIC card, extra floppy cable (which I was way overcharged for), extra keyboard, all for various reasons and all turned out to be unnecessary. The extra NIC was the best of them though; it made my Debian installation a lot easier (had internet automatically, didn't have to go through the hassle right now - now I'm working on my graphics card lol). Plus I can use my new computer as a router for my old one since it now has 2 ethernet connections. Actually cheaper than buying a router. Not sure if I would have, but it's not all bad. Thanks again.

That's it! I looked up how to reconfigure a cable modem, found that I should unplug it. So I did, then after only a minor reconfiguration of my network, it works! Thank you so much! I think I'm going to switch back to Debian now. I really appreciate your help. I had no idea cable modems were set to only one mac address.

I think you're on to something. I'm not using a router. I'm pulling the ethernet cable out of the laptop and plugging that now loose end into the desktop. Maybe I need to reconfigure the cable modem? Is there a way to do that? I'll check to see if there's a reset switch on it maybe.

Both eth0 and eth1 are listed there. When I click "activate" it says "Determining IP information...." and then eventually fails. Same thing for both eth0 and eth1. That's using DHCP (from the configuration part of the GUI). Bootp gets the same result. If I choose "dialup" for getting the IP address (which I assume is pppoe but I'm not sure), then the activation appears to work (doesn't give me a "Failed", the window it pops up closes too quickly for me to read it) but it is still listed as inactive. If I manually configure the IP address and netmask, then when I click "activate" it's listed as active. However, with any of these 4 ways, including the manual configuration that said the connection was active, I tried connecting to the internet through a web browser and through gaim, and I couldn't connect to anything. Also, I should note that for a time (a few days ago) I had Debian installed on my laptop, and it used DHCP to connect. It does connect through a cable modem, but it works for the laptop (like I said, I'm constantly flipping the ethernet cable back and forth). It might be worth noting that with the new Netgear NIC, when the cable is plugged in a light on the back blinks. Also, I tried deactivating acpid through redhat-config-services and it didn't help. And I'm sure the firewall is off.

The connection is fine, I flip the ethernet cable back and forth from my laptop (sometimes running Windows XP and sometimes running Debian) and my desktop. The laptop works fine with either OS, but the desktop does not. Ok, so I went out and bought a cheap NIC (Netgear). Fedora recognized it and auto-configured it. And I have the exact same problem - I still can't get out to the internet. eth1 (the new card) fails on bootup just like eth0 (on-board lan) did.

Gosh, I should have posted this under the Networking forum, sorry about that. If a moderator comes across this and wants to move it... I'd appreciate it.

Hi all, First let me say that I've searched and searched, I've spent 2 days trying to find an answer to this. I know there's a similar thread shortly down in this forum - which is how I found this forum - but that didn't solve my problem, which is slightly different. I've now tried this first in Debian, then in Fedora. So I know the problem is not just one distro. I'll describe it mostly in Fedora since that's what I'm currently using. The short summary (before my long explanation) is that I installed Nvidia's drivers, but still the ethernet does not work. I have an Asus A7N8X-X motherboard which uses on-board Nvidia nforce ethernet and sound. I can't get the ethernet to work. There are 2 options: install drivers from Asus, or install drivers from Nvidia. Asus only makes Linux drivers for Redhat and Slackware; plus I've read it's better to go with Nvidia. (By the way, I've tried the Redhat install on Fedora, it's no good, just a ton of parse-type errors). I went to Nvidia's website and downloaded their drivers for the board. (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261). I got the tar.gz from the bottom of the page, followed the instructions. I had some problems about include files, so I got the source package for my kernel (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl currently; the Debian version was something like 2.4.18-bf). After setting the appropriate pointers, and adding in a Tab before a period at the end of a make file that was giving me a "*** Missing separator" error message, the drivers installed just fine. I added the following line to modules.conf: alias eth0 nvnet Then I added it also to modprobe.conf when the first didn't fix the problem, but still no success. What happens now is that when I boot the computer, the bootup pauses for a long time when it tries to get to the network (using DHCP as is required for my cable modem), then fails and moves on. The computer recognizes eth0 but it's as if eth0 is talking to a void. It's also interesting to note that if I remove the ethernet cable before booting the computer, the network setup on bootup fails much faster and suggests that the cord is unplugged. I don't know what else to do. When I had Debian, I also added the following to /etc/network/interfaces: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp which told Debian that I wanted to have DHCP. But Fedora seems to know that I want DHCP - it did ask me on my first bootup after installing the Nvidia drivers if it should configure the card, and I told it yes. I'm pretty sure the problem is not DHCP. I know that when I had Debian I installed dhcp-client, and I saw it sending requests and getting nothing back. Anyway, I think that's about all I know. So I'll leave you with some files. Output from /sbin/ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:6E:B7:89:9E UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9950 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:603435 (589.2 Kb) TX bytes:2052 (2.0 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1000 Plus info about the loopback interface which I assume is not relevant. When the ethernet cable is unplugged, eth0 doesn't show up under ifconfig. lspci -v (the ethernet part): 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80a7 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at e2001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) I/O ports at d400 Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 I would be willing to go buy a cheap network card, but I'm not sure I won't have the same exact problem I'm having now. I've gotta be missing something fairly simple. I did come across a thread that suggested disabling ACPI helped, but I tried putting "option acpi=off" in grub.conf (something like that; don't remember exactly) but it didn't fix the problem. I have seen mentions of ACPI in some log files, so if that's possibly the cause, please tell me how to disable it. I haven't been able to find how to disable it (with grub) short of recompiling the kernel. I'll be glad to provide any more info that might be relevant, just ask. Thanks in advance for the help.