Re: CPU recommendations *avoid Intel-Shite*
On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 10:04, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 06:47:18AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > So since Jamin says that audio works fine with the intel8x0 alsa
> > drivers, the big sticky wicket is the integrated ethernet?
>
> Yep.
>
> > NICs are cheap, and to put one in just for installation is doable,
> > but should be unnecessary; boards w/ integrated Realtek & Intel
> > ethernet work perfectly w/ the kernel drivers.
>
> Right. For installation, I used a USB NIC I had on hand.
Interesting...
What brand and model?
> > Besides, if there's a bug, you can upgrade to the latest kernel
> > rev from your distro. W/ the nForce2, you must wait until they
> > decide to release.
>
> They tend to be fairly repsonsive. Sure, it's not the same as having
> full access to the source code, but then again, I'm not forced to use
> the on board NIC.
>
> > Another question: "USB and IDE hardware will work with standard
> > Linux drivers." Which drivers? uhci or ohci, and for IDE, which
> > IDE driver to choose, and what's the oldest kernel that has this
> > driver?
>
> In my case, the USB is ehci-hcd (USB 2.0), and the IDE is ide-mod (and
> friends). The following are fairly normal rates for my IDE drive in the
> system:
What's ide-mod? I see it as /usr/src/linux/drivers/ide/ide-mod.o,
but that doesn't tell me much.
When rolling the kernel with a Via KT133 chipset, I chose
$ egrep "_IDE|_VIA" .config |grep ^CONFIG
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y <<<< Note the VIA chipset
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=m
Thanks
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