From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GThOy-000015-PH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:09:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8UG8991020247; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:08:09 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8UG2kCr012453 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:02:46 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so367433ugc for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:02:46 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fxy6hhXWfntC8mLxoeD0hsFSl8jImO60zHwkUL9YBz7LawzmiH3NWoM9Hlu6fItWtL6hZkNNXvqu87+6Nm+CkeDFZ6EoSC2N8nyMG5gm4o6OqA/w7HJdf+8Pslhn4dwT8UTc/p2zy8ebMJmU6WZgUj74Hde36x/PYjfc+EQ5J78= Received: by 10.67.24.13 with SMTP id b13mr1017587ugj; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.21.16 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <64e8d2f20609300902kb7da96fu453258aff1660a69@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:02:45 -0400 From: "Ryan Sims" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <64e8d2f20609291228h3dbb57e3mfdec5ba0f8fcc15d@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: fd0c36d7-ac72-47fe-b5dd-9486bc568622 X-Archives-Hash: 8f946167520c9e0309cb9949003fd02f On 9/30/06, Duane Griffin wrote: > On 29/09/06, Ryan Sims wrote: > > I'm looking at upgrading to a Core 2 Duo system, and looking at the > > Asus P5B series of motherboards. I've found a couple forum posts > > (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494387-highlight-p965.html and > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-498160-highlight-p965.html) that > > seem to indicate troubles with JMicron support in kernels. Is this > > something I should be concerned about? The forum discussions seem to > > indicate that the problem is unresolved, indicating to me that I > > should look elsewhere for motherboards. > > I'm running gentoo on exactly this setup. There was some trouble with > support for the controller prior to 2.6.18, however it all works just > fine if you use the "all-generic-ide irqpoll" boot parameters. > > Another issue you might run into is getting the onboard RTL8168 > ethernet controller working. There is no in-kernel driver for this > thing. I managed to get the vendor-supplied driver compiling, but > isn't working correctly for me (it seems to be transmitting packets > fine but not receiving anything). I've not looked into it much since > there seems to be in-kernel support coming soon and I've got another > ethernet controller card to use in the meantime. There are also lots > of reports from people getting it working successfully, so it may just > be something stupid I'm doing. People on the forums claim they're using the in-kernel Realtek 8169 drivers, have you tried that? (sorry for all the noise, but the thought of upgrading my system and the thought of not being able to intsall Gentoo fills my heart with dread. ;) -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list