26 Apr
2007
26 Apr
'07
10:18 p.m.
Walt Reed wrote:
I would go farther and suggest just installing a real Intel ethernet card and be done with it if at all possible.
I also have an asus board with the nvidia / realtek / forthdeth driver chip and have had nothing but problems no matter what distro I run.
It's not worth messing with a device that the manufacturer supports so poorly. I'm going to make sure that any motherboard I buy in the future does NOT have that crappy ethernet chipset in it.
Here is a link to a company that makes Linux systems. You can use their systems as a reference to build your GNU/Linux-compatible systems.
Got it from another mailing list. I am going to use it this way, myself in the future. :-)