			Linux Driver Disk Readme
			   For SuSE 10.2
			Version 1.25 [Mar. 20th,2007]
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INTRODUCTION
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This archive provides drivers for SATA and LAN controller of NVIDIA nForce 550/570/590
and NVIDIA nForce professional 3600/3400/3050.

This Linux distribution ships with the in-box SATA & PATA & LAN drivers which include 
the above chipsets support. As such, a driver disk for installation of Linux is unneccesary.
After installing Linux, please update the LAN & SATA driver to latest version with rpm package 
provided, and the 'initrd.img' file will be updated as part of the installation of the 
driver rpm package so that the new SATA driver will be combined into the pre-existing 
'initrd.img' image file

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

Section 2 list the miscellaneous problem and information when running the SuSE10.2 on NVIDIA platform. 

1) Install the SATA and LAN driver package on existing system
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1.1) If you install the SuSE 10.2 before, you just need to run below command:

      in 32bit OS: rpm -ivh nvlan-suse10.2-0.62-1.25.i686.rpm
                   rpm -ivh nvsata-suse10.2-2.1-1.25.i686.rpm
      in 64bit OS: rpm -ivh nvlan-suse10.2-0.62-1.25.x86_64.rpm
                   rpm -ivh nvsata-suse10.2-2.1-1.25.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-2.6.18.2-34-default.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 SuSE 10.2, you can select to install the kernel source when OS
     installation)
     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/2.6.18.2-34-default/kernel/drivers/scsi/
     forcedeth.ko: nVidia LAN controller driver, locate at /lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-default/kernel/drivers/net/