On Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:24, Matthias Saou wrote: > 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. Yes, but so far my uptime hasn't gone past 3 days :-( The lowest uptime of a Linux machine I have in the past 7 years. Hopefully it's not due to this board or fedora but due to some stupid mistake that I made :-) > - 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 : I had very weird problems with the 3c2000 driver. I did see many warnings while compiling and later when I started using it I had a problem with windows clients connecting via NAT to the internet over this card. Changing to a new card solved my problem. Perhaps a different driver would also work. > - 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 : I boot from this just fine. > Overall it looks like a nice motherboard. Hopefully not to "cheap" > though... Would seem so, but stability issues are my highest concern at the moment. Regards, Marcel
