Built up a new box this weekend based on the ASUS A7V133 mainboard. Running a Duron 850Mhz. No major problems getting things going but am seeing something funny with Grub. When I select my Debian partition, grub starts but there is a 30 second delay before the kernel uncompresses. Weird. It also happens if I select the SUSe partition. I tried using the IBM disk (which is ATA/100) on the Primary ATA/100 IDE channel and it came up as HDE. Since the box had a DVD and SUSe came with a DVD-ROM I tried installing that first. It worked, but there was always this long delay while some part of the boot went looking for hda and hdb. So I gave up and put the disk back on the primary IDE channel. Other than that everything is sweet. Took me about 8 hours to build Debian on the box to the point where everything works the way it does on the box I am retiring (233 MHz Cyrix on an AT board). A big part of that time was tied up in: Networking - spent futzing with the NetGear FA-311. I never did get the natsemi driver to compile - something about a structure missing a member. Finally wised up and just swapped out the D-Link from the Win2K box. Still had to play some games with the BIOS. The rtl8139 was trying to run the card on IRQ 0. Changed the BIOS to PNP/OS == no and specifically assigned the NIC slot to IRQ=10. One of those two did it. Sound - had tried to load the es1371 module a couple of times. Had problem, went over to networking. When I fixed the networking I tried sound again and this time modprobe es1371 went smoothly. TIA for any clues. -rick
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