Jerry Geis wrote:
Seems like overnight every motherboard that worked with linux has DROPPED off the face of the earth.
First I've heard of this. What kind are you looking at, for a workstation at home?
Every motherboard I looked at is using the realtek 8111 chipset and a northbridge that is not supported.
The 8111 isn't new. Check http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
And I was under the impression northbridge is northbridge. Why, is it something other than Ivy, Sandy, or whatever?
Example: GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3, does not work with linux I tried disabling the onboard NIC and using a PCI-E intel card I always use and that would not work either. The north or south bridge is messing with the network card.
The card asks for a PXE boot but after centos starts it can no longer find kickstart files, network is messed up.
You actually do want to do a pxeboot? Sounds to me like the issue here is that the kickstart needs to load a driver for the NIC, and isn't doing so.
What does the messages screen say (f,um, 4? 6?)
I was using Asus M5A88-M and they are no longer available.
Anyway - anyone have a suggestion for and AMD motherboard that works with linux be great if it has onboard video (gaming is not needed), onboard network, SATA nothing super special just "working".
I'll tell you that it works on every hardware we've bought, including fairly new Dell 720's with a Tesla add-on card - standard CentOS 6.3.
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