			Linux Driver Disk Readme
			   For Fedora Core 5
			Version 1.11 [Jun. 30th,2006]
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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 
MCP55 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.

1) Install the SATA and LAN driver package on existing system
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1.1) If you install the Fedora Core 5 before,you just need to run below command:

      in 32bit OS: rpm -ivh nv-fc5-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.i686.rpm
      in 64bit OS: rpm -ivh nv-fc5-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.x86_64.rpm
      please append '--replacefiles' or '--force' parameter if it report file confliction.

note:
      installation of rpm package will create a new initrd image file,the original file will be
      backuped with '-nv' extension,for example: initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img-nv,you can specify 
      the old initrd image file on grub options if you encounter the problem with the new one.


2) Appendix
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List the driver modules for your information:

sata_nv.ko: nVidia SATA controller driver,locate at /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/scsi/
forcedeth.ko: nVidia LAN controller driver,locate at /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/