> On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 22:39, Eric Scott wrote:
>> Yo,
>> I have a box with an ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard that I assembled
>> myself. {The computer, not the motherboard ;-)} I'm almost positive
>> that ASUS doesn't have linux drivers for this product, and I don't
>> really need them terribly, as everything I really use that box for is
>> local. Right now I don't even have linux installed on it, but I'm about
>> to put it back on; I know a while back I mentioned something about my MB
>> and somebody wrote back with a procedure to get the on-board ports
>> running, I.E. the ethernet port... and my USB gives me troubles too. At
>> the time I was brand-new to Linux, and I'm still quite novice, but I'd
>> like to take a shot. If anybody knows what I can do to get this specific
>> hardware running, I'd be very grateful.
>> I need really basic stuff, like "type this command" then "type this,"
>> not "extract that" or "set this."
>> Thanx,
>> ES
>>
>> PS: The last two or three messages I posted I got a "message returned"
>> error... but they still got through. Anybody know why it seems to think
>> I'm not getting through when I am?
>> Thanx
>
>
> You are very unlikely to need special drivers for your mobo. This aint
> like
> Windows. Just install linux and it will sort itself out
> There are some mobos, where all you devices may not be correctly
> recognised.
> If that happens to you come back and many willing people will work you
> through
> it.
> Whatever your previous experence was Linux changes so fast it is likely to
> be
> completely different now. Give it a go. You have nothing to lose but your
> chains.
>
> derek
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>
>
Linux runs almost flawlessly on this Mobo... save when I kill it trying
to get it to run happily alongside Windows... I'm reinstalling Linux on
this comp alongside Windows XP. What doesn't work under linux is the
integrated Ethernet port on my mobo, which I really need now. I forgot
that with 9.1 everybody is alot happier when u install Linux, THEN
Windows. Whelp, I just deleted the ol' Windows 2000 Server that I
almost never use, and replaced it with Linux. Of course the remaining
Windows XP decided (as usual) that it didn't like things that way. So I
backed up my important files to Linux... and after nearly killing the
Linux bootloader (which had the newly deleted Windows XP on it), I have
a semi-working Linux installation alongside an emtpy partition that the
stupid windows installer seems to think "isn't compatable with windows,"
before it even tries to Format.
Clear as mud? good. What I hope to do is get the Ethernet up under
Linux, which refuses to open mandrake control center and most other
programs (I'm lucky it runs at all. I reinstalled without reformatting
the linux partition to "revive" the hda6 (X-windows) partition so
bootloader wouldn't commoit suicide when trying to load hda6 as an
option, if u follow). With Ethernet up I can backup to my ol' Pentium
Box which has, happily, Windows 2000 and MK LInux 9.1, and start from
scratch on the box in question.
If you managed to follow all that, the point is I need ethernet to
backup about 250MB worth of data to another computer on said mobo. I
could put in my old CD burner on this box, but being a novice to Linux
and with mandrake control center offline (I'm not exactly sure why),
I'm not sure I could get the buring software to work.
Thanx,
ES
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