Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Dotan,

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:05:46AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> wrote:
> > What is specific to Ubuntu as far as MoBo is concerned? I would look at the
> > kernel. Are Ubuntu kernels very different?

[...]

> There is no mention of which driver it needs, and I strongly suspect
> that the 1000 Mbit part requires nonconventional drivers as was the
> case with Asus board's NIC. There wasn't even a legacy mode for 10
> Mbit communications.

See the list of currently (as of version 3.8-rc1) supported PCI IDs of Atheros 
GbE Ethernet devices in drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c,  
drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_hw.h and 
drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl1.c. You'll need to access a running 
machine to extract the PCI ID information, though, since Gigabyte's manual is 
not very helpful.

baruch

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