Thomas H. George wrote:
Without research I purchased the ECS KA3 MVP motherboard AMD Athlon 64
AM2 combo from NewEgg.
This seems like a very nice MB in many respects but I have encountered
two problems.
First, Standard CMOS Features does not list my dvdrw and cdrw drives.
There are two ide headers on the board labeled ide1 and ide2 and I have
two hard drives attached to ide1 and the dvdrw and cdrw drives attached
to ide2. Only the hard drives are listed when I access BIOS Standard
CMOS Features. On boot up the dvdrw and cdrw drives are shown as being
at ODD0 and ODD1. Result: No entries in /dev for hdc and hdd so I can't
mount these devices.
Second, there are two onboard LAN chipsets, Agere E13101 and Realtek
8100C. The kernel configuration for linux-source-2.6.18 includes an
entry under onboard controllers for Realtek RTL-8129/8130/8139 which I
have selected as module. With this choice dmesg reports:
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
eth0: link down
ADDRCONF (NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Result: I can't reach the internet from this system.
Perhaps this is all my fault. If ODD0 and ODD1 are a new standard way
of recognizing cd and dvd devices there may be a way other than from
/dev entries to mount and use these drives. I have read
Documentation/icd.txt and tried /DEV ./MAKEDEV hdc but this did not
immediately solve my problem.
Also there may also be another setting needed to use the onboard lan
chip sets which I do not understand.
I have and could install a pci ethernet card if I need to download
additional programs.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions or sources of information
which would help me make this motherboard usable for Debian Linux.
Checking NewEgg for that board and the reviews, there's this one:
Cons: Not compatible with Linux. Very poor performance from the chipset.
For instance, using an IDE drive slows down the computer so much that it
cannot be used to play DVDs. Don't ever consider this board for using an
IDE hard drive or for watching movies from the optical drive.
Also there was one that said to be sure to upgrade to the latest BIOS
for the board.
Hugo
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