Problems with MEPIS 3.3 & NForce2 chipset
Posts: 46
Hello, I'm a newcomer to MEPIS and was incredibly impressed with the ease of installation and lack of any real effort to configure my wifes PC - an upgrade from Mandrake which got to the point of being worse to manage than Windows.
Unfortunately, I went to install this on my PC which is built around an MSI K7N2 Delta2-LSR (nForce2 Ultra 400) mobo and the results are completely the opposite.
I've got the latest MEPIS 3.3 CD, and neither 2.6 nor 2.4 kernels will initialize the onboard ethernet nor audio. I've searched and can find no easy solution to this. Is there one? Is there another Distro I should look at for this hardware config?
I've grown to love MEPIS in the short time I've been playing with it, but need the simplest solution to this problem. Having to manually install the iRiver GUI for my wife is about as much effort as I can afford right now.
Thanks!
..jarrod
ps. Why isn't ifp_gui included with MEPIS? As far as I know its still required for the IFP-790. My wife hates commandline apps. 
Re: Solved-though somewhat inelegantly
Posts: 46
edit (as root) /etc/modules and add the following two lines:forcedeth
snd-intel8x0
Thanks man, I owe you a beer... make it a case!
I've spent the entire weekend flipping between trying to make MEPIS place nice with my nvidia systems and auditioning other livecd distros. Once MEPIS is up and running, it kicks ass. Nothing else compares once you're up and running.
Hardware detection and configuration really needs to be improved. This is the only one I've tried that cannot configure my nforce machine. It also failed on my PCI GeForce2 box. ubuntu wins hands down in the catagory, in my opinion. 3 machines, wildly different configurations, not only did it detect it all flawlessly, default configurations were perfect.
Btw, snd-intel8x0 is required for the sound to work.
Thanks again, essen... now off to search why my card reader doesn't automount.
Solved-though somewhat inelegantly
Posts: 3
I also have Nforce2 and Mepis 3.3...
edit (as root) /etc/modules and add the following two lines:
forcedeth
snd-intel8x0
save and reboot...
the snd-intel8x0 may not be necessary as I get some redundancy messages during bootup, but everything works (network and sound)
I never tried it without, as it works and I don't fix what ain't broke.