[WBEL-users] Athlon64 AMD64 motherboard recommendation

[Kirby Bohling]

> 
> I'm leaning towards NForce3 based boards, as these seem to be really
> common, but I'm wondering if the built in stuff, like Ethernet, is
> easy to enable and configure.
> 

	I can't speak directly to NForce3's, but I have an NForce2 that
takes IA32 AMD chips.  Nvidia is very proud of their secret
Ethernet, Sound and Firewire chipsets.  So there's no support for
them under Linux without binary only drivers.  Nvidia is generally
pretty good about releasing updated drivers for their video cards
that are kernel neutral, and I use those.

	I hate binary only drivers that are kernel specific as I'm at
the mercy of my vendor.  So I'd recommend checking to be sure the
chipsets are supported via the default drivers in WBEL.  I'd be
absolutely shocked if they are.

	Thanks,
		Kirby