florin@hum.math.cmu.edu wrote:
To answer myself now :-)
Intel provides a newer e1000 module source that will make the ethernet adapter work with the the smp kernel (tested on 2.6.11.4-21.8-smp). The module will detect the hardware but will NOT work with the default (non-SMP) kernel. This driver is not mentioned directly on Intel's pages about the D945GNT motherboard (they're afraid of Microsoft to say it loud, I suppose), but google will eventually dig it out.
In my reply I mentioned I'd seen reference to it on the kernel mailing list last week, a post from someone at Intel.
Other odd issues with D945GNTLKR:
1. It won't boot from a harddrive unless one of the partitions is marked as bootable (Windows style) in the partition table. The BIOS (tested the newest one - 1788) is quirky alltogether and many of the features are twisted or don't work as described in the documentation. Why in the world would somebody make the BIOS read the partition table?
I always thought a partition had to be made bootable in order to be able to boot from it. I've always done that since the days when we used Minix bootlace and shoelace to boot Linux. You'd also note that on any Linux install of any flavour, partitioning the drive takes care of that.
2. The sound doesn't work with SUSE 9.3. Intel's website points to ALSA. Some people claim that the the pre-release 2.6.13 of the kernel may work, but I didn't try. Much easier to stick a cheap sound card that works inside the box ...
Also in my reply I mentioned the problem and what had to be done, depends on the audio card of course.
Florin
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