Motherboard recommendation?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 26 20:34:22 UTC 2004


On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:57:35AM -0500, Kerry Panchoo wrote:
> Linux support for the new 3Com Lan chipsets is pretty poor. We recently 
> got an Asus P4R800-VM and prior to that a P4C800 Deluxe. The P4R800's 
> lan simply did not work- We have not found a solution to it. The P4C800 
> deluxe was pretty bad also- you were able to browse some websites and 
> not others- for example you could not go to google.com etc-- pretty bizzare.
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=70621
> 
> I dont know if they've resolved the problem, i still have the P4C800, 
> but i added a network card to solve that problem. I've since sold the 
> P4R800 since my application requires everything onboard. I hate to say 
> it- but for linux the new Asus boards suck.

Well the onboard on an Asus P4P800 that we got 2 days ago runs great
with the sk98lin driver (gigabit ethernet), which also works for the
A7N8X-E-DX's gigabit port (the other onboard is run by forcedeth
driver).  I haven't had any issues with the onboard network stuff so
far.

Lennart Sorensen
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