From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
Subject: Re: Asus K8N-VM Motherboard Ethernet Problem
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 12:18:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060528101849.GL13513@lug-owl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44793E2B.2050100@perkel.com>
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On Sat, 2006-05-27 23:07:39 -0700, Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com> wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
[forcedeth not working correctly]
> Also - why is it that I can load a 3 year old version of Windows XP on
> this motherboad and it just work but I load a modern Linux Kernel and it
> can't find the Ethernet card?
That is either because Windows XP is totally superior to Linux, or
because the vendor (NVidia in this case) wrote a Windows driver, but
they didn't write something for Linux _and_ didn't publish any specs
for this ethernet controller. So it took some time to reverse
engineer the Windows driver...
MfG, JBG
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-28 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-28 5:11 Marc Perkel
2006-05-28 6:07 ` Marc Perkel
2006-05-28 10:18 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw [this message]
2006-05-29 17:48 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-05-29 17:54 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-29 22:03 ` [BUG 6480]Re: " Ingo Oeser
2006-05-31 21:35 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-07-08 10:30 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-05-28 17:54 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-28 18:20 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-29 14:14 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-05-29 16:46 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-29 17:26 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-05-29 22:19 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2006-05-30 15:56 ` Mike Dresser
2006-05-30 16:03 ` Mike Dresser
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