Re: Motherboard+CPU - Advise Needed

From: baskitcaise (baskitcaise_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 13:26:44 +0100

Tony Hill adjusted his tin foil beanie and asbestos underwear to write:

>>The Nvidia nforce nic is now handled in the 2.6 kernel and functions
>>straight from the box on Suse 9.1 allowing to do the latest updates
>>while still in the install process :-þ
>
> Ahh, about time! Last SuSE I tried installing was 9.0 (new as of
> about 6 months ago) and it didn't support the NIC for my 2+ year old
> motherboard.
>
> I was more upset about the fact that they didn't allow the option of
> loading third-party drivers though, rather than that it didn't work (I
> understand it was mainly a licensing issue that prevented them from
> including the nVidia driver, while the open source 'forcedeth' driver
> was still kind of buggy). Who knows, maybe I'll try installing SuSE
> 9.1 and see how that goes, though I wasn't overly impressed with 9.0..
> it just didn't quite work how I expected things to work (I've mostly
> used Debian and Mandrake previously though, so this is probably as
> much a personal preference thing as anything else).

If you do try 9.1 there is just one caveat, when it asks which way to
install ( bit vague I know but cannot remember the exact wording )
choose the option with ?No ACPI? this should work and get the nic
detected from the startup allowing for autoupdate ( using DHCP ) during
the final phase, also the setting of noacpi will be saved into the grub
menu.lst automatically so the nic will be accessible during normal boot
after installing 9.1.

HTH 

-- 
Mark
Iligitimi Non Carborundum!
Twixt hill and high water, N.Wales, UK
onfxvgpnvfr-ng-tzk-qbg-pb-hx

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