testing kernel-2.4.22-1.2163

[Mike Lurk]

This is a message to let everyone know this.

I just puchased a new motherboard, Asus A7N8X-E with an athlon 2500+ CPU
and everything went well. Everything was detected when I first booted
the system, except for the gigabit lan and the nVidia MAC fast ethernet
adapter that was integrated into the motherboard. 

For testing purposes I used the gigabit lan as my lan connection, but I
had to get the kernel running first with the gigabit lan configured in
the kernel.

This is what I did
1. Enable 'loadable module support' in the kernel.
2. For automatic driver start, enable the 'Kernel module loader'.
3. Select the menu "Network device support" and then "Ethernet(1000Mbit)"
4. Mark "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx family support" 
   with (M)
5. Execute the command "make modules".
6. Execute the command "make modules_install".
   The appropiate modules will be installed.
7. Reboot the system.

Then this to load the module manually just to see if it works, and did.

1. Enter "modprobe sk98lin".
2.    "ls /proc/net/sk98lin/" 
   This should produce an output containing a line with the following 
   format:
   eth0 
   which indicates that the adapter has been found and initialized.

Then setup my network connection in Gnome and turned off kudzu

Everything that I wanted working is working very well.

Job well done to all who contributed to the kernel.

Now if I could get Windows XP to run with this new motherboard, hmmmmm. It just 
reboots every time I try to run it. I think I have to reinstall. 
Go Figure....

Any ways Linux is my main OS so it doesn't matter too much about XP.

Mike