On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:29:43AM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > You didn't tell us which ASUS motherboard you are using. It makes a > difference. I had trouble like this with an ASUS A8N-VM-UAYGZ, which > has an AMD64 processor. I guess that is the one... > To get the ethernet up to permit installation I just plugged an old, > well-supported ethernet card into one of my PCI slots. That enabled me > to install from a sarge netinstall disk that had been jiggered to > contain a 2.6.12 kernel. As far as I know, it is still not recognisong > the onboard ethernet. One of these days it probably will, and then I'll > suddenly have to figure out which is which -- or unplug the card. Well, I guess the ethernet card is sis190, and I got the drivers easily. To make it work, simply compile a kernel with the drivers from sis.com and tgar works. > But I still couldn't get a lot of stuff working -- trouble with RAID, > LVM, and X -- so I switched to an etch install disk. Now everything > works except for onboard ethernet, video and sound. Haven't tried to > plug in a speaker yet, the onboard nvidia chip seems to be too new for > xorg (not recognised, doesn't even work as VGA or VESA), and I haven't > had time to try the proprietary nvidia drivers yet. I am not too sure about this. But do post regarding your experience with the sis190 driver, if that is the ethernet card on your system. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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