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 1GTcfZ-0005P7-5v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:06:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8UB4waS031528; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:04:58 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8UB0kF8031883 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:00:47 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so1537598wxc for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 04:00:45 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=PaRLn22KTCL2kRtIKzzXvS5Zfx6zzB0zif/zm+PLM0PJDUnllMBf8s76U1BW46OwLkzrjgQZENLG0KDlBnjwEWWSXUJgjvwvxDI4aPUg8N/K3CMnJkXa86IWmgN7YqrLY93nMARvF+8HQ713ZvDFSoKbRD12MG0lm1wrPQi2dYA= Received: by 10.90.51.17 with SMTP id y17mr2196014agy; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 04:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.74.2 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 04:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:00:45 +0100 From: "Duane Griffin" Sender: duaneg@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion In-Reply-To: <64e8d2f20609291228h3dbb57e3mfdec5ba0f8fcc15d@mail.gmail.com> 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-Google-Sender-Auth: 8fafec1110a9559d X-Archives-Salt: bac24c6a-8a41-47ea-91a7-14d6e15383a5 X-Archives-Hash: 03a364e6374825fb39290cba865f790e 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. > Ryan W Sims Cheers, Duane. -- "I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list