On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 02:03:56AM +0200, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: > Thank you for the tip. I can now confirm that the A8V-E Deluxe onboard > NIC will function with kernel versions up to 2.6.9 but not with 2.6.10 > or .11. After I set up 2.6.9, I ran the install.sh script that came with > the driver from syskonnect.com and generated a patch, which I applied on > the kernel sources. The other installation options (expert and user) did > not work. I tried all of the install options on 2.6.11, 2.6.10 and > 2.6.9, and only 2.6.9 worked. > > It seems I'm stuck with 2.6.9 for this particular motherboard. A newer > linux driver is clearly needed from syskonnect / marvell. The nature of > the errors (functions pci_save_state and pci_restore_state) might > indicate functionality added in 2.6.10. I wouldn't know, I'm not a coder. > > I hate saying it, but every time I buy an Asus motherboard, I face a lot > of problems. It's happened now seven times in a row...twice this week > alone. I guess this is what can be called human-hardware incompatibility.
Hmm, how odd. I have never had a problem with Asus boards, and I have quite a few (haven't bought anything else since 1992). It seems odd that a driver working in 2.6.9 stops working in newer versions, so someone changed something in a way that broke it, and perhaps not just on Asus, although given how common they are, I guess Asus being the best known for encountering this problem does make sense. I wonder if there is anything different about how Asus connects this chip, or if they are just using a newer/older revision than other boards (assuming other boards have sk98lin onboard and not just cheap realteks). Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
