Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 and RTL-8168

2011-01-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 29.01.2011 17:07, schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2011 13:29:53 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm thinking about building a new media PC and wanted to use an ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 mainboard (link: [1]). Any objections to this? I wouldn't buy an

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 and RTL-8168

2011-01-30 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Thanks for all the input, Dale and Volker! I think I settle for a GA-880GMA-UD2H ([1]). Basically, it's the little brother of what Volker proposed. I need a Micro-ATX board. Originally, I ruled out all Asrock and Gigabyte boards because because they usually come with 2

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 and RTL-8168

2011-01-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 30 January 2011 09:58:21 Dale wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Thanks for all the input, Dale and Volker! I think I settle for a GA-880GMA-UD2H ([1]). Basically, it's the little brother of what Volker proposed. I need a Micro-ATX board. Originally, I ruled out all Asrock and

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 and RTL-8168

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2011 13:29:53 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm thinking about building a new media PC and wanted to use an ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 mainboard (link: [1]). Any objections to this? I

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 and RTL-8168

2011-01-30 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 30 January 2011 09:58:21 Dale wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: When you get ready to build your kernel, check out this link. http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Giga-byte/GA-880GMA-UD2H+rev2.0 That should tell you what drivers it needs and save you some

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 and RTL-8168

2011-01-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 30 January 2011 10:24:17 Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2011 13:29:53 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm thinking about building a new media PC and wanted to use an ASUS

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 and RTL-8168

2011-01-29 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm thinking about building a new media PC and wanted to use an ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 mainboard (link: [1]). Any objections to this? I'm a bit worried about the LAN chipset Realtek 8111E (which seems to be also known as RTL-8168E). This chipset seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 and RTL-8168

2011-01-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 29 January 2011 13:29:53 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm thinking about building a new media PC and wanted to use an ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 mainboard (link: [1]). Any objections to this? I wouldn't buy an Asus board at the moment, thanks to their crappyness. I bought a

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 and RTL-8168

2011-01-29 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2011 13:29:53 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm thinking about building a new media PC and wanted to use an ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 mainboard (link: [1]). Any objections to this? I wouldn't buy an Asus board at the moment, thanks to