On Saturday 03 July 2010 02:36:48 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2010 07:52 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Friday 02 July 2010 08:45:41 H.S. wrote: > >> I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus > >> and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, > >> etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO. > >> > >> Anybody with this mobo can confirm there are no problems with Debian? > >> For example, someone has mentioned that he can't get audio to work > >> properly in this. > >> > >> Thanks. > > > > The gigabit ethernet might be an issue., not sure about that board , > > earlier versions had the RealTek 8111/8168. Not supported in Lenny, or > > Squeeze. Installed with a pci nic, compiled the driver from source from > > RealTeks site. > > An RTL8111C works fine on my Sid system running 2.6.32-3, so why > wouldn't it work in Squeeze? > > -- > Seek truth from facts.
It may work but I wouldn't assume that it does, from my experience. My board is the ASUS M4A77TD, lspci says the nic is: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) booting Squeeze, 2.6.32-5, dmesg says: r8169 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl8168-2.fw ~eth0: unable to apply firmware patch. Lenny gives no such warning. What I understand from my research for this nic , the various revisions to this family of nic's require different drivers. In Lenny/Squeeze the r6169 modules gets loaded and did not work. For Lenny I downloaded the source from Realtek's site and compile a r8168 module, it works. I had to blacklist the r8169 driver . I haven't pursued ,yet, doing this in Squeeze. I loaded Squeeze using a pci nic. Here is a list of the cards the Realtek driver, from the enclosed link, supports: RTL8111B/RTL8168B/RTL8111/RTL8168 RTL8111C/RTL8111CP/RTL8111D(L) RTL8168C/RTL8111DP/RTL8111E http://tinyurl.com/2w43ckb Next task: what card(s) does the Linux r8169 driver support ? -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007031027.40862.gomadtr...@gci.net
