Hi, I've just bought an ASUS A7V600 motherboard (VIA KT600) and wondered if anyone here had already some experience in getting it to work properly with Fedora Core 1. Here are the specs : http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socketa/a7v600/overview.htm Basically : - 3Com Gigabit Ethernet : Needs a driver download from asus.com, for a source based kernel module named 3c2000.o which seems to work (compiels fine against FC1's kernel-source, loads, chip gets detected, haven't actually tested the interface yet). Does anyone know if this may get included into the mainstream kernel or patched into the Fedora one? The module seems to be released under the GNU GPL : $ grep LICENSE * skge.c: * MODULE_LICENSE was introduced in 2.4.10 */ skge.c:MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); - Integrated VIA Serial ATA : I've read here and there that there is a SATA patch for 2.4 somewhere (included in 2.4.22-ac4 it seems) which provides a sata_via.o module. Certainly what I need, but what is the easiest and cleanest way to get it in? Is there a patch against the Fedora kernel floating around? As I'd really prefer that... - On board ATA133 ports : I'm unable to boot from drives connected to those regular IDE ports, I currently have to boot from a floppy, and can't get GRUB into the MBR it seems : [root@phoenix root]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 196015808 26788852 169226956 14% / none 516364 0 516364 0% /dev/shm [root@phoenix root]# grub-install /dev/hda /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. Is there a way to get around this? I've looked at all possible BIOS options, tested many combinations (the hard drive is seen by the BIOS and listed in the boot devices) but to no avail. I'd like to have the system disks on the S-ATA interface anyway, so this may be a non-issue if I can get S-ATA working properly. - IDE RAID on the Serial ATA : Has anyone tried it? Does the S-ATA patch even work with it, e.g. is it real hardware based RAID or not? I've had really bad experiences with Promise IDE RAID in the past, and would probably go for software RAID1 unless I get lots of positive feedback for that VIA chipset (which I don't really count on). Overall it looks like a nice motherboard. Hopefully not to "cheap" though... Feedback very much appreciated. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) - Linux kernel 2.4.22-1.2129.nptl Load : 0.76 0.84 0.63
