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[Ben Duncan]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 12:56 -0500, Ben Duncan wrote:
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> 
> 
> I have a supermicro MB with the ICH7, 82801G chipset as well. The main
> problem I has with SUSE 10.1 was related to power. I had to add acpi=off
> to the command line. Did you have the same issue? 
> 
> I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.17.7-smp so I could get the SATA hotplug
> stuff to work. Now it works great.
> 

I wound up with a custome 2.6.17.13 kernel to get my laptop
to work.

> I can't say anything about the wireless. My 2200BG worked out of the
> box.
> 

Only way to even remotely consider the 3956ABG is to install
some weird stand alone driver, but since I am wired at the house
it was not worth it ...

> 
> Given intel's support for Linux, I am surprised that there is not better
> kernel support for these chipsets.

Prolly too new even for their software ppl to catch up ...

You know EEE's, gotta push the envelopes ...

> 
> 

FWIW, Kernel 2.6.18-RC7 WORKS on the sata and the E1000 NIC and USB
and everthing else EXCEPT for the Marvell IDE controller. I might go
find me a SATA DVD burner and stick in the machine, since I want to
switch backups to DVD media instead of 4MM tapes ...


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