FC5_64 fails to start - nVidia MCP51 onboard LAN causing PC hanging
Lonni J Friedman
netllama at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 00:57:20 UTC 2006
On 4/20/06, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Lonni,
>
> > > I ran Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD successfully on this PC. Broadband
> > > connection can be setup. How long can I browse Internet depends on
> > > luck. Finally the PC also hung.
> > >
> > > I'm now searching around on Internet trying to find out a solution.
>
> > Have you checked to see whether there's a newer BIOS for this
> > motherboard? I'm not running into this problem on the MCP51
> > motherboard that I have here (although its not the same one as
> > yours).
>
> Contacted ASUS local distributor, technical support section. They said
> not a problem connecting with BIOS. But they won't support Linux.
That's not terribly surprising. Did you go to their website and
actually look for a newer BIOS?
>
> A CD came with A8N-VM motherboard. There are Linux drivers on it to
> solve the issue of nVidia chipset problem. Their installation requires
> kernel compilationg. I'm now search for the relevant kernel source.
I'd be extremely surprised if whatever drivers Asus is shiping on a CD
are somehow newer/better than what is in an FC5 kernel.
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