Thanks very much Lew and Carlos for your input.
I proceeded with the new system build yesterday and installed TW 20231120.
Install was normal ( I have not installed all my other packages yet but found 1 issues.
The z790 Formula uses the Realtek 8126 5 Gbit Wired network and there was no driver in TW for it.
Fortunately wifi worked but I don't want to use wifi on this computer.
lspci | grep net
05:00.0 Ethernet controller:
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8126 (rev 01)
So it detects the 8126 just fine it just doesn't have a driver for it.
I checked realtek.com and found
Looks like the download still says 8125, but I compiled the source and then I had to sign the module since Secure Boot is enabled.
After that the driver loaded and I now have wired networking.
Can someone please direct me as to how to get this driver included in TW or even better in the kernel as I'm not sure where I would need to request that and I can then point them to the source that I downloaded and compiled.
THANKS for your assistance!
On 11/20/23 17:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-11-21 01:47, Joe Salmeri wrote:
Can anyone point me to a list of supported motherboards ?
I'm building a new PC and looking either the Asus z790 Maximus Hero or the Asus z90 Maximus Formula motherboards but I'm having trouble confirming that these motherboards are supported.
There was the HCL, which was never very up to date, and now redirects to <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Hardware>
This may not be of much help, but I've been installing SuSE/openSUSE on all kinds
of laptops, desktops, workstations, and servers since 1998 and I've yet to encounter
an incompatibility. True, there used to be some issues with laptop special function
keys and WiFi interfaces, but I haven't seen even that for many years. The servers
include Dell, HP, and Supermicro, all worked well. The desktops included Dell, HP,
MSI, Asus, Lenovo, and others. I even set up a dual-CPU Supermicro server that had
246 separate, non-raided disk drives. I've got other servers with 500-terabytes of raid
storage and 512-GB of ECC ram. All running openSUSE.
So basically, I'd be surprised if you could find a motherboard that wouldn't be
compatible with openSUSE or Tumbleweed.
I don't know if you could do this any longer, but one time I brought a bootable
USB thumb drive to a Fry's computer store and asked if I could boot one of
their display laptops using the SuSE rescue system on the stick. They let me,
and it worked. I then purchased the laptop.
But that being said, I can't say anything about your Asus mobo's, your mileage
may vary.
Regards,
Lew
-- Regards, Joe