On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
Seems like overnight every motherboard that worked with linux has DROPPED off the face of the earth.
Every motherboard I looked at is using the realtek 8111 chipset and a northbridge that is not supported.
Most hardware I work on has Broadcom or Intel chipsets. Intel is the way to go if you're buying new. (Well except for the EEPROM bug caused by some equipment manufacturers [4], which isn't Intel's fault per se.)
Looks like fun: [0] [1] [2] [3]
Driver that is included in vanilla Linux kernel is actually a driver for a different network adapter, but works with 8111E too. Sort of works. Realtek made new official driver that fixes the problem, but disables the old driver. Which could be a problem for you if you have RTL8169/8110 and RTL8168/81111. [2]
[0] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/no-network-detect... [1] http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=80757 [2] http://www.twm-kd.com/linux/realtek-rtl81688111e-and-ubuntu-linux/ [3] http://unixblogger.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/the-pain-of-an-realtek-rtl8111rt... [4] http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death-update.html
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.
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".
Thanks,
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