David Levinger wrote on Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:21:46 -0800:
I tried downloading the latest driver's from NVidia's site here: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.23/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.23.zip However, the RPMs that are provided are compiled for a specific kernel and don't work with the latest Centos 5.1 kernel.
After some looking around I found this page http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.23.html and assume that's where you found this file. Last year they still provided their own proprietary drivers in those *.run files you find here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.07.html It seems these contain only the display drivers now. :-( and forcedeth is now the "official" driver. I see that the provided kernel module is supposed to support RHEL 5.0, so I guess you just need to wait a bit until they release a version for 5.1. There's also an external discussion forum at nvnews.net
They also provide a .c file
for compile but no makefile. I'm going to try and figure that out.
Well, tried just compiling directly with gcc?
Fedora 8, however, works right out of the box,
of course. You *do* know the difference between CentOS/RHEL and Fedora?
Kai