I got a nice offer for a practically new box, either with K8N, or K8V ASUS board, Athlon 64 2800. The K8N box has Win2000 on it, but I had some limited time to inspect it from Knoppix 3.6 . There were problems recognizing the onboard ethernet 'card', and the sound 'card'; a second (real) NIC was recognized fine. Next time I'll get a chance to look at either the K8N, or the K8V I'll be armed with Knoppix 3.8 .

Search results pointing to individual posts are naturally more about problems then satisfactory installs. So what are the more objective sites to check hardware compatibility and other issues?
Here is one I found:
http://www.linux-tested.com/
(also reporting problems with those onboard sound and network chips)


- what are you using to check on linux hardware compatibility?
- anyone experience with the K8N or V8V boards ?
- what motherboard would you chose for a solid workstation (nothing bleeding-edge/game oriented, just a significant improvement over my 5+ years old K7 650MHz ((I haven't looked into motherboard issues since then and, looking at the current market, feel like a newbie))


 - Horst


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