Fedora Core 1 on an ASUS A7V600 motherboard

[Gareth Bult]

Hi,

I'm running an ASUS SK8N (still struggling with x86_64 however..)  which
sounds like it has similar
internals. SATA works for me, but only on the 2.6-test11 kernel...
pretty much everything else works
on the stock Fedora if I use an IDE drive. (although you can forget the
NIC, just buy a standard 
Realtek 8139 for $10)

On 2.6 the SATA's appear as SCSI ... the sounds cards comes in as an
intel_810 ...

Not had a crash on 2.4 or 2.6 thus far  ...

HTH
Gareth.

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 11:24, Matthias Saou wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've just bought an ASUS A7V600 motherboard (VIA KT600) and wondered if
> anyone here had already some experience in getting it to work properly with
> Fedora Core 1.
> 
> Here are the specs :
> http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socketa/a7v600/overview.htm
> 
> Basically :
> 
> - 3Com Gigabit Ethernet : Needs a driver download from asus.com, for a
> source based kernel module named 3c2000.o which seems to work (compiels
> fine against FC1's kernel-source, loads, chip gets detected, haven't
> actually tested the interface yet). Does anyone know if this may get
> included into the mainstream kernel or patched into the Fedora one? The
> module seems to be released under the GNU GPL :
> 
> $ grep LICENSE *
> skge.c: * MODULE_LICENSE was introduced in 2.4.10 */
> skge.c:MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> 
> - Integrated VIA Serial ATA : I've read here and there that there is a SATA
> patch for 2.4 somewhere (included in 2.4.22-ac4 it seems) which provides a
> sata_via.o module. Certainly what I need, but what is the easiest and
> cleanest way to get it in? Is there a patch against the Fedora kernel
> floating around? As I'd really prefer that...
> 
> - On board ATA133 ports : I'm unable to boot from drives connected to those
> regular IDE ports, I currently have to boot from a floppy, and can't get
> GRUB into the MBR it seems :
> 
> [root at phoenix root]# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1            196015808  26788852 169226956  14% /
> none                    516364         0    516364   0% /dev/shm
> [root at phoenix root]# grub-install /dev/hda
> /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
> 
> Is there a way to get around this? I've looked at all possible BIOS
> options, tested many combinations (the hard drive is seen by the BIOS and
> listed in the boot devices) but to no avail.
> I'd like to have the system disks on the S-ATA interface anyway, so this
> may be a non-issue if I can get S-ATA working properly.
> 
> - IDE RAID on the Serial ATA : Has anyone tried it? Does the S-ATA patch
> even work with it, e.g. is it real hardware based RAID or not? I've had
> really bad experiences with Promise IDE RAID in the past, and would
> probably go for software RAID1 unless I get lots of positive feedback for
> that VIA chipset (which I don't really count on).
> 
> Overall it looks like a nice motherboard. Hopefully not to "cheap"
> though...
> 
> Feedback very much appreciated.
> Matthias

-- 
Gareth Bult <Gareth at Bult.co.uk>
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