On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at 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-detected-realtek-8111-8168-issue-615047/ [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-rtl8111rtl8168-ethernet-card/ [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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //