In message <20051026070504.GG11516@paradise.net.nz> Volker Kuhlmann
The Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 was mentioned on this list before, having few problems. However, people tend to report "works", which isn't terribly useful. Specifically:
Does it work with the SUSE 10.0 kernel out of the box (basic functionality)?
Does the IEEE1394 interface work with SUSE 10.0? (There is no specific chip specified, and linux1394.org is dead.)
Are SATA disks recognised during installation and give no trouble for booting and otherwise?
Does the gigabit LAN work reliably/at all at 100M and at 1G?
Thanks for any confirmation, + or -,
Volker
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Hi, I think I have the same motherboard: Giga-byte K8N - Ultra 9, which has an nforce4 ultra chipset and single PCI-E slot..... Well to cut a long story short, it works ;) Okay some detail: SuSE 10 DVD eval recognised my SATA disk straight off (Maxtor 300Gb) attached to SATA1 connectors (Orange) Initially I suspected that I might be having some problems with the dual NICs and read somewhere that people have had success with disabling the Marvel chipset NIC ("on-chip" or "LAN1"). I did this, and installed the Nvidia Nforce driver, which supplies the nvnet kernel module for the "on-board" NIC ("LAN2"). I can't really see much difference in performance between that and the community developed forcedeth module - but haven't done any testing. We only have 100Mb LAN, so can't comment on gigabit. As for firewire, I haven't checked - since I don't own any devices, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work. Pretty sure it was recognised during the installation. The main thing that I have noticed is screwed on my machine (but isn't specific to the motherboard), is that Gnome is currently unusable (in SuSE 10 release version). So stick to KDE (yuk). Best wishes, Jon. -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: 01865 272156 fax: 01865 282675