Re: Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:15:36PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> 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.
May try that later. I have it working with a ten-dollar cheap ethernet
card, and for now that's good enough. IN the long run, I'll probably
want to add a gigaherz card, and as far as I know, the on-board one is
only 100MHz.
>
> > 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.
Works fine in text mode, though!
>
> 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
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