Murray Waldron wrote: > I was thinking of using the GA-P35-DS3P M/B that comes with Realtek > ALC889A codec for sound and Realtek 8111B chip for LAN.
I had bad experiences with Realtek network chips and their Linux drivers over a couple of years. When gigabit ethernet was a little new. I was doing network testing at the time and the network chip/driver would go into some weird state where the interface was up but wouldn't pass packets. Required a machine power cycle to make it work again. Also, even when the card was pssing packet we could only get about 60-70% of the throughput we could get with a NatSemi or Intel card. Also had flakey behaviour at other times with Realtek based cards. Personally I usually try to get hardware with Intel networking stuff. HTH, Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "OS X is great that way. I put a copy of OS X on my coffee table, and it hasn't been hacked yet. Yes, I am using it as a server. I serve several meals on it every week." -- Anthony Minkoff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
