[WBEL-users] Athlon64 AMD64 motherboard recommendation

Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:11:08 -0400

I too have an Nforce2 board, and your assertion is misleading.  There is 
full ethernet support using the forcedeth driver.  Alsa supports the 
sound, but it won't do hardware mixing.  My firewire port seems to be 
supported, and working, however I don't have firewire devices I can use to 
test.  I would suspect that the same would hold true for the Nforce3 
boards.  I am using Gentoo on that box, and kernel 2.6.7  Forcedeth is 
available as source, so getting the driver working on another kernel 
should be simple.  Alsa will certainly work on the 2.4 series.

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Scott Mace
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Travelcenters of America
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mace.scott@tatravelcenters.com
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Kirby Bohling <kbohling@birddog.com> 
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08/05/2004 07:17 PM

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Re: [WBEL-users] Athlon64 AMD64 motherboard recommendation

> 
> 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
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