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Hello I've spent two days wrestling, googling and asking but cannot get the onboard Gigabit LAN (3Com 3C940) to work on this board. Can anyone lend me a hand? I've had to put a cheap PCI card to get out to the world. I know that the onboard sound is a lost cause (?) but it would be sad to lose two PCI slots.

I've been to syskonnect's site and tried the sk98lin module but that did not seem to do anything (apparently the driver is supposed to work with the 3Com chipset; maybe I'm way off). I would like to build a couple more of these boxes for my friends and family... TIA&Cheers << I have a k8v deluxe running Suse 9.0-64 with a Linksys secondary card. My original installation (around January 04) had the same trouble with the gbit NIC, so I put the plain vanilla Linksys in. A month ago I suffered a hard drive failure and had to re-install. I initially had the network cable connected to the Linksys - Suse installed and went through the online update cycle. At some point I noticed that both NICs were registered and active so I switched to the mobo g-bit NIC and have been using it ever since. I don't have a clue as to what update caused it to start working but I won't argue with success! I use it for a game server - the Linksys is set to a static local IP for when the box is here for repairs, the g-bit is set to the static global IP for when it is at its co-location site. I also have a plain K8v running Suse 9.1 at home and the g-bit card was detected and functional from the start with it. Also, when I first got the system, I also had trouble with the sound - someone else here on this list suggested going into the audio control panel and making ALL the settings 100% - this worked & I had sound after that. Right now it makes no difference since my box is on-site & only has power and network cords connected to it! Hope that helps or at least indicates there is hope! .....Chuck http://www.TexasArlingtonCS.us