On 29/09/06, Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm looking at upgrading to a Core 2 Duo system, and looking at the Asus P5B series of motherboards. I've found a couple forum posts (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494387-highlight-p965.html and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-498160-highlight-p965.html) that seem to indicate troubles with JMicron support in kernels. Is this something I should be concerned about? The forum discussions seem to indicate that the problem is unresolved, indicating to me that I should look elsewhere for motherboards.
I'm running gentoo on exactly this setup. There was some trouble with support for the controller prior to 2.6.18, however it all works just fine if you use the "all-generic-ide irqpoll" boot parameters. Another issue you might run into is getting the onboard RTL8168 ethernet controller working. There is no in-kernel driver for this thing. I managed to get the vendor-supplied driver compiling, but isn't working correctly for me (it seems to be transmitting packets fine but not receiving anything). I've not looked into it much since there seems to be in-kernel support coming soon and I've got another ethernet controller card to use in the meantime. There are also lots of reports from people getting it working successfully, so it may just be something stupid I'm doing.
Ryan W Sims
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