On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:41:54AM -0800, brian wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:44:42AM -0800, brian wrote: > >It's an Atom board known as "Johnstown". > > [snip] > > And this is for a Johnstown board or some other board that you think > has the same chipset ? I think you have read too much into my email, I have no experience with this board, but I have had problems with realtek nic's before, and the solution was to use the realtek driver. can I suggest probably the easiest way to check is get a latest live cd and boot from there, they normally have the newest kernels on them > > There seems to be a lack of coherent information about this stupid > chipset. > > realtek has just joined ati as something I will never spend money on > again. Intel is about to join that list too. > > Intel's web page for the board says that Ubuntu 8.10 works with the > "native" drivers. 8.10 is ancient, and is probably the > same vintage as Lenny, right ? So this thing should already be working. > > > > >Any help _greatly_ appreciated (as you can tell by the time :-) > > I was up late goofing around with this. Linux, still the same after > all these years :-( > > Brian > > > -- "The United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act -- the Patriot Act." - George W. Bush 09/07/2006 Atlanta, GA
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