From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JePuv-0002xh-Cq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:19:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9789FE079B; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512B5E079B for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so1312373nfh.26 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:19:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HdcU6udF+fpqRWrxVxkejaQ/DMKUxbJCgHM0thvshNU=; b=hj0a71wxlFapY4tWOQ4bpwk1AeOI6QP+616icco9nBmfBJO2TiVV3/yPgjyHBNLcesfP73ofWubY/zHvYZEnKYEwD61xB5o5BI4XsH1jEAlFOsLrU4gzDMQ3clb6aeSWMet0SiSYCzhZPspalojUy2xrpWoEXTTJmjc1b1w50dE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uL7p2qvYckJ1KWnYnEBhWVAMDBYytfbc1Ja4PgLDi9KZd74As68eU/dpLau2svvoegQSgcNh5hvlSwcxQcf8eSfkiiwTmOrlGvVzEQjJlOH4x4z55sXjKRkc4kcoAGT/LJJvgtvqu0gVAbzdl9TuQ6WE+kJr2D3Gfb27N0FWDyc= Received: by 10.78.150.7 with SMTP id x7mr23286174hud.52.1206515962299; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuci ( [141.85.0.71]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t10sm11682121muh.13.2008.03.26.00.19.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:19:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:16:52 +0200 From: ionut cucu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard Message-ID: <20080326091652.41fe25a9@cuci> In-Reply-To: <20080326004521.75218800@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> References: <200803242343.33944.neodarklight@gmail.com> <200803251117.17345.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20080326014317.66985fca@cuci> <200803260209.20019.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20080326004521.75218800@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a85088ba-ebc8-4126-90a0-a20e996db5d3 X-Archives-Hash: c4b74953b9431c5f353d9efad4b28df4 On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:45:21 +0000 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:09:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I can't remember a single ethernet device in the last several years > > that wasn't fully supported and JustWorked(tm) straight out the box > > on any old arb Linux system. > > When I bought my Asus P5B-E board last year, the drivers for the > Attansic L1 gigabit NIC hadn't made it into the kernel and no live CD > would enable it. I ended up putting a spare PCI NIC in to install > Gentoo, then patching the kernel to enable the on-board one. > > It appeared in the next kernel release, so is not problem now, but > that was less than a year ago. Something similar to that I was referring myself: less than a year ago some cheap realtek model was not kernel supported. I was lucky though: only after 2 weeks it got in to the mm kernel(or was it git?) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list