Re: ASUS M2N-E mobo and openSUSE 10.2
- From: Thomas Richter <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Apr 2007 22:52:18 GMT
Jeff <whirlworkr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This will be my first PC build. I have read the reviews on Newegg and
did some research showing that Ubuntu 6.x and Fedora Core 6 have been
used with this motherboard. I'm not particularly fond of the hardware
compatibility lists on the openSUSE and Novell web sites. I'm thinking
about buying this board, but before I do, is there anyone running
openSUSE 10.2 using this motherboard?
I'm using an M2N-SLI board here with Debian. The M2N-E is very similar,
except that the number of PCIE-lanes provided by the chipset is smaller.
IIRC, the M2N-E uses the NForce550, whereas the -SLI version uses the -570.
(Correct me if I'm wrong.)
The chipset is supported fine (SATA, Networking, sound work), however at
least for the M2N-SLI board, ASUS broke the bios for later versions when
fixing the bootstrap from network option. My older version works fine, but
would probably not boot an operating system from the built-in network
adapter (a feature I don't need). The later bios versions could be made
to work by, IIRC, the noapic option.
I do not know whether this issue exists with the M2N-E or has been
sufficiently worked around by later kernel versions.
Otherwise, the M2N-SLI is a pretty stable and solid board, I would
recommend it. I've also seen posts of a lot of users that have been
disappointed by other vendors (in this specific case, MSI, which had
an issue with their AMD64 board series) that switched to the Asus
board and reported it to work just fine.
So long,
Thomas
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