Re: Abit AV8 Gigabit Ethernet

[Kyuu Eturautti <vekotin@b2.st>]

I'm using several Abit AV8 and KV8-Pro systems (nearly identical), some 
with dual boot setups. I haven't faced any issues so far. I never cared 
much for discover though, I just have the module via-velocity listed in 
/etc/modules. Discover does have several issues. Granted - it's a great 
idea to make things easier in some cases and for many new users, but 
it's very little trouble going around it when it fails.


Kyuu 'Vekotin' Eturautti

Juan A wrote:

> I won't claim victory.
> i'm using dual boot in this machine, linux under a custom 2.6.11 
> kernel and if i'm in linux and reboot under windows the network card 
> gets detected again under another phantom network connection that well 
> does nothing, i need to turn off my machine and then go to windows,
> So it's like the hardware isn't getting their resources free o 
> something like that i don't know, pasing the noapic parm to kernel 
> once worked but as i get more use of it discovered it was just pure 
> look. So there something still wrong in there with via-velocity cause 
> my old and trusty realtek never gived me that kind of problems
>
> Juan A.
> Ed Murray escribió:
>
> > The module is the via_velocity, the Debian AMD64 installer has this
> > module on it though it won't autodetect it. I can't remember if I
> > modprobed it before or after the base install. It is a buggy module
> > under 2.6.8 however, I would recommend upgrading to to a later kernel as
> > soon as possible. It works flawlessly under 2.6.10
> >
> > Regards
> > Ed.
> >
> > Velocity is AUTO mode
> > eth0: Link autonegation speed 100M bps full duplex