[CentOS] Release 4.4 and MPC51 ethernet controller

Thu Aug 31 16:24:49 UTC 2006
David Thompson <thomas at cs.wisc.edu>

Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
>According to the upstream release notes ... this is supposed to be fixed
>on 4.4=20
>
>=46rom rom the kernel changelog and release notes:
>
>-amd74xx: add pci ids for Nvidia MCP51
>-Update 4 adds Nvidia nForce 430/MCP51 IDE support

This continues to be a problem for us as of 4.4/i386 (haven't tried 
4.4/x86_64).  The BIOS for our motherboard (asus A8N-VM-CSM) does not appear 
to have a switch to make the ethernet appear as an ethernet class device.

Dave Thompson
UW-Madison