On Friday 25 November 2005 00:41, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
I've seven nForce4 PCs (ASUS A8N-E), and no problem with the Ethernet ports (all communicate with >100MB/s when using netcat).
Mobo specs usually mention some PHY chip in connection with the gigabit ethernet. Common is something marvell, and CICADA8201. Does this PHY thing affect the kernel device driver at all, or is it some kind of line transceiver like the historic MC1488/89 for RS232C?
The PHY chip really is just a transceiver. Ethernet uses a rather high voltage, so you can't connect a modern chip (with maximum 3.3V IO voltage) directly. I don't see any reason how the PHY chip can affect the software layer.
Because if it doesn't affect the software, one can conclude that the gigabit ethernet on nforce4 chipset mobos works reliably with 10.0.
Did you test all the other peripherals on this Asus A8N-E? Specifically, does SATA work OOTB? How about lm_sensors?
Yes, SATA works OOTB, and if you insmod it87 and i2c_isa, sensors works, too (needs a bit tweaking, if you want meaningful measurements). Audio works fine, too, as well as USB. The only untested peripheral is the floppy controller - who needs a floppy drive today, anyway (ok, people who want to install Windows on a SATA drive, but who wants to do that ;-). -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/