			Linux Driver Disk Readme
			   For RHEL5
			Version 1.25 [Mar. 20th,2007]
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INTRODUCTION
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This archive provides drivers for PATA, SATA and LAN controller of NVIDIA nForce 550/570/590
and NVIDIA nForce professional 3600/3400/3050.

Section 1 provides instructions for installing SATA and LAN drivers onto an existing Linux 
installation.

Section 2 list the miscellaneous problem and information when running the RHEL4 on NVIDIA platform.

1) Install the SATA and LAN driver package on existing system
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1.1) If you install the RHEL4 Update3 before, you just need to run below command:

      in 32bit OS: rpm -ivh nvlan-rhel5-0.62-1.25.i686.rpm
                   rpm -ivh nvsata-rhel5-2.1-1.25.i686.rpm
      in 64bit OS: rpm -ivh nvlan-rhel5-0.62-1.25.x86_64.rpm
                   rpm -ivh nvsata-rhel5-2.1-1.25.x86_64.rpm
      please append '--replacefiles' or '--force' parameter if it reports file conflict.

note:
      'initrd.img' file will be updated as part of the installation of the SATA driver rpm 
      package so that the new SATA driver will be combined into the pre-existing 'initrd.img' 
      image file, the original file will be backuped with '-nv' extension,
      for example: initrd-2.6.9-34.EL.img-nv, please specify the old initrd image file in grub 
      options if encounter the problem with the new one.

2) Miscellaneous
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2.1) If need compile the sata_nv.ko file from source we provided with your Makefile, please make sure
     the necessary Kernel header files ('scsi.h','scsi_typedefs.h','scsi_obsolete.h') are copied from 
     the Kernel source directory. 
     For forcedeth.ko, just copy the forcedeth.c and Makefile to same directory then make it.

2.2) List the driver modules for your information:
sata_nv.ko: nVidia SATA controller driver, locate at /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/
forcedeth.ko: nVidia LAN controller driver, locate at /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/kernel/drivers/net/