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". > >
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>
> 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
>
>
>
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