Re: Installation report: Abit KV8 Pro / Athlon 64 3000+ / SATA

[Kyuu Eturautti <vekotin@b2.st>]

Michael Vang wrote:

> John Chronakis wrote:
>
> > - VIA VT6122 on board gigabit lan was not detected. A quick google 
> > revealed that there is no support yet. Replaced with a realteck. 
> > WARNING: I had to disable on board lan from the BIOS, otherwise the 
> > installer was failing with an error (sorry don't remember the message)
>
>
> And if you buy the non-Pro version (K8V) the onboard NIC works 
> perfectly...

We're running two Abit KV8-Pro motherboards, no problems with the 
integrated LAN on 32-bit Debian Sarge. I don't know if it applies here 
as well, but www.viaarena.com has the drivers available and it includes 
linux sources as well. Works like a swiss banana.

The driver package file is velocityget.tgz. At least they're claiming 
AMD64 compatibility so I would assume it works nicely with 64-bit 
kernels as well as 32-bit ones.


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