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. http://www.aslab.com Got it from another mailing list. I am going to use it this way, myself in the future. :-)