Motherboard recommendation?
Kerry Panchoo
Kpanchoo-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sun Mar 28 23:10:40 UTC 2004
Any word on the P4S800? i have a friend complaining about LAN support on
Redhat 9.0- i'm hoping its only a case of getting a new kernel/updated
drivers etc.
Kerry
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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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