On Sat, 2006-05-27 23:07:39 -0700, Marc Perkel <[email protected]> wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: [forcedeth not working correctly] > Also - why is it that I can load a 3 year old version of Windows XP on > this motherboad and it just work but I load a modern Linux Kernel and it > can't find the Ethernet card? That is either because Windows XP is totally superior to Linux, or because the vendor (NVidia in this case) wrote a Windows driver, but they didn't write something for Linux _and_ didn't publish any specs for this ethernet controller. So it took some time to reverse engineer the Windows driver... MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [email protected] . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O für einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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