> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web!
I also am using the Soyo Kt400 Motherboard and have had to address the same issues, with the same workaround.
