>> Have you had any issues at all besides waiting for a working driver? >> Any special parameters needed for the kernel? > Nope, just the ethernet driver update. It's rolled into 4.4, so I just > downloaded it, rather than installing 4.3, and then updating the driver. > > We have a couple of other boxes here in the office that needed the > updated driver too, and > no special kernel params needed there either. That sounds really good. I read posts reporting issues with Asus M2N32 boards' bios and I think some similar ones too with MSI K9N. I guess it is time to give A-bit a try. thanks.