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.
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,
jerry
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.
mark
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
Seems like overnight every motherboard that worked with linux has DROPPED off the face of the earth.
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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.
Sorry, that's Intel. However, we've got some hot Penguin servers, with Opteron 6274, 64-core, and they were supported out of the box on the supermicro m/b Penguin builds with.
ON THE OTHER HAND, having dealt with them, there's *no* *way* I'd buy a Supermicro board: their q/a,q/c is lousy.
mark
Sorry to hear about the ASUS because that is what we have too.
Another board that works on our Linux cluster is TYAN S4980G2NR Thunder n3600QE
There are a series of Tyan boards that are based on AMD architecture. Last time I looked there were still on the face of the earth.
John
On Feb 14, 2013, at 1:28 PM, 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.
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,
jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Have built two workstations in last few months using Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H motherboards. One Rev. 2101, the other Rev. 3001. Both DVD installs of 6.3 w/o a hitch. Using software Raid 10 on both with four sata III drives. Zero issues known.
HTH.
B.J.
CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:28 -0500, Jerry Geis 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.
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,
jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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,
jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 02/14/2013 09:28 AM, Jerry Geis 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.
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".
I use the M5A99X EVO R2.0 board from ASUS ... I just built 2 machines with it the other day and installed CentOS-6.3 on there.
I did not hook up sound, but network and sata work fine. I also did not use any of the hardware raid options, but there are 6 sata ports (6GB/sec), 6 e-sata ports (6GB/sec), and USB 3.0 support. It has AM3+ socket with support for a huge number of AMD CPUs from a single core Sempron 100 series to the 8 core FX-8350.
The bios adjustments are amazing and there are several buttons on the board itself if you get a bit too aggressive on the memory settings, overclocking, etc. This will do a self diagnostic and set things at default for the Memory, CPU, and get you back to working settings. You can also flash the bios from a usb key while booted into the bios, so no DOS booting to upgrade the firmware.
Needless to say ... I love these boards :)
They also seem to be very close to what you were already using (M5A88-M), so any spare parts you have laying around should work (CPUs, Memory, etc).
It does NOT have built in Video though ... and it requires a pci-e 2.0 video card. I had some GeForce cards on the shelf that would work.
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