nvidia nforce onboard net

I went spelunking on the realtek nic mail archive & found a few
references to the above mentioned net chip.  

FWIW, I have a new Shuttle XPC "toaster" which uses NVidia chipset.  I
installed Slackware 9.0; kernel 2.4.20 & gcc 3.2.2 are the most
relevant contents. I plan to use it as a portable system for Oracle
class homework.

NVidia makes a linux driver available on it's web site; unfortunately
they include a lib called nvnetlib.o [no source for the lib], which is
compiled with gcc 2.96.  The driver source compiles & links with
nvnetlib.o; unfortunately insmod is very resistant to loading gcc2
compiled modules into a gcc3 compiled kernel.

I sent email to nvidia begging for a nvnetlib.o compiled with gcc3.
Should I hold my breath?

Guess I'll put a Netgear FX310 in it for now.

Also FWIW, I include a bunch of info in case there's a chance a
bonafide Becker module might work with this chip.  I recognize running
rtl8139_diag wouldn't necessarily provide any useful info, but I did
it anyway:

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From FN41 motherboard manual:

    Chipset: nforce Crush18G N.B. and MCP2 S.B.
    Onboard Lan:   Realtek 8201BL, support 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s operation.
    Onboard 1394:  Realtek 8801...
    Onboard Audio: Realtek ALC 650...

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lspci results:

  00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01e0 (rev a2)
  00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01eb (rev a2)
  00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ee (rev a2)
  00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ed (rev a2)
  00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ec (rev a2)
  00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ef (rev a2)
  00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
  00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
  00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3)
  00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3)
  00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3)
  00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
  00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
  00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
  00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 006c (rev a3)
  00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
  00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
  00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2)
  02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3)

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cat /proc/pci:

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: PCI device 10de:01e0 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 162).
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe3ffffff].
  Bus  0, device   0, function  1:
    RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01eb (nVidia Corporation) (rev 162).
  Bus  0, device   0, function  2:
    RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01ee (nVidia Corporation) (rev 162).
  Bus  0, device   0, function  3:
    RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01ed (nVidia Corporation) (rev 162).
  Bus  0, device   0, function  4:
    RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01ec (nVidia Corporation) (rev 162).
  Bus  0, device   0, function  5:
    RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01ef (nVidia Corporation) (rev 162).
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    ISA bridge: PCI device 10de:0060 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 163).
  Bus  0, device   1, function  1:
    SMBus: PCI device 10de:0064 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 162).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      I/O at 0xd000 [0xd01f].
  Bus  0, device   2, function  0:
    USB Controller: PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 163).
      IRQ 3.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee081000 [0xee081fff].
  Bus  0, device   2, function  1:
    USB Controller: PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 163).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee086000 [0xee086fff].
  Bus  0, device   2, function  2:
    USB Controller: PCI device 10de:0068 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 163).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee087000 [0xee0870ff].
  Bus  0, device   4, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: PCI device 10de:0066 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 161).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=1.Max Lat=20.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee080000 [0xee080fff].
      I/O at 0xd400 [0xd407].
  Bus  0, device   5, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: PCI device 10de:006b (nVidia Corporation) (rev 162).
      IRQ 3.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=1.Max Lat=12.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee000000 [0xee07ffff].
  Bus  0, device   6, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: PCI device 10de:006a (nVidia Corporation) (rev 161).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=5.
      I/O at 0xd800 [0xd8ff].
      I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc7f].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee082000 [0xee082fff].
  Bus  0, device   8, function  0:
    PCI bridge: PCI device 10de:006c (nVidia Corporation) (rev 163).
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=2.
  Bus  0, device   9, function  0:
    IDE interface: PCI device 10de:0065 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 162).
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      I/O at 0xf000 [0xf00f].
  Bus  0, device  13, function  0:
    FireWire (IEEE 1394): PCI device 10de:006e (nVidia Corporation) (rev 163).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee084000 [0xee0847ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee085000 [0xee08503f].
  Bus  0, device  30, function  0:
    PCI bridge: PCI device 10de:01e8 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 162).
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=10.
  Bus  2, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: PCI device 10de:01f0 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 163).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec000000 [0xecffffff].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe7ffffff].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xe807ffff].
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[./rtl8139-diag -af -p 0xd400]

  rtl8139-diag.c:v2.11 4/22/2003 Donald Becker ([email protected])
   http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
  Assuming a Realtek 8129 adapter at 0xd400.
  RealTek chip registers at 0xd400
   0x000: 00000144 0000000c ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff
   0x020: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff
   0x040: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff
   0x060: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff.
  Realtek station address 44:01:00:00:0c:00, chip type 'Unknown version'.
    Receiver configuration: Unknown/invalid
       Rx FIFO threshold 2048 bytes, maximum burst 2048 bytes, 64KB ring
    Transmitter enabled with NONSTANDARD! settings, maximum burst 2048 bytes.
      Tx entry #0 status ffffffff complete, 2047 bytes.
     Tx carrier lost
     Tx aborted
     Tx out-of-window collision
     Tx FIFO underrun
      Tx entry #1 status ffffffff complete, 2047 bytes.
     Tx carrier lost
     Tx aborted
     Tx out-of-window collision
     Tx FIFO underrun
      Tx entry #2 status ffffffff complete, 2047 bytes.
     Tx carrier lost
     Tx aborted
     Tx out-of-window collision
     Tx FIFO underrun
      Tx entry #3 status ffffffff complete, 2047 bytes.
     Tx carrier lost
     Tx aborted
     Tx out-of-window collision
     Tx FIFO underrun
    Flow control: Tx enabled  Rx enabled.
    The chip configuration is 0xff 0xff, 10baseT full-duplex mode.
    Interrupt sources are pending.
     Rx Complete indication.
     Rx Error indication.
     Transmit OK indication.
     Transmit Error indication.
     Rx Buffer Overflow indication.
     Rx Buffer Underrun indication.
     Rx FIFO Overflow indication.
     unknown-0080 indication.
     unknown-0100 indication.
     unknown-0200 indication.
     PCS timeout - packet too long indication.
     PCI System Error indication.
     (null) indication.
     (null) indication.
     (null) indication.
     (null) indication.

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