I am seeing posts on A.O.L.M, bug reports (including mine - 115) and some posts on various other web forums related to the onboard network, sound and usb of many newer motherboards not working. I have asked people in these cases to try booting with noapic and/or acpi=off and in most cases it allowed those periphs to work. See bug 115 for a detailed report I filed on the issue on a Soyo KT400 board. When I could identify the hardware, it seems these reports came from VIA chipsets for both Athlon and Intel platforms, but I cannot confirm that universally. The symptoms are that cannot install via network because network does not work, or cannot connect to the internet via ethernet once beta 2/3 is installed. Also sound and usb reported not working. I saw a new kernel today, but since I don't see anything addressing this issue in the changelog, I don't hope that this kernel will solve the problem, although I will try it. Can we have an acknowledgement from the kernel team that this is a known issue and that it is going to be addressed? Greg
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