On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:15:36PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:29:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > -- > Kumar Appaiah, > 462, Jamuna Hostel, > Indian Institute of Technology Madras, > Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
