Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

[E.S. Rosenberg]

Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum...

I have an Atheros chip from that family on my laptop, it required me
to install one more package for wired communication (wireless
[different chip, also atheros] worked out of the box):

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8162 Fast
Ethernet (rev 10)

The weird thing was that the driver detection program didn't realize this...

Either way the package that provides the 'alx' driver on Ubuntu 12.10 is:
linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-quantal-generic

Hope that helps,
Eliyahu - אליהו

2012/12/26 Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>:
> Hi Amichai,
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 02:57:23PM +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
>> Download the Windows drivers from the MpBo site, extract the files, look up
>> the relevant strings in the .inf files and Google it for Kubuntu
>> compatibility....
>
> I tried that. The trouble is that the Windows driver (according to its file
> name: "mb_driver_lan_atheros_813x_815x_816x.exe") covers a wide range of NIC
> chips. This is not a driver tailored specifically for this board. So the list
> of PCI IDs in the driver's .inf file is not a indication for what is actually
> installed on the board.
>
> baruch
>
>> How about starting a Linux-IL maintained HW DB - every member runs lshw on
>> their machine and uploads it to a site with the Distro their running...
>>
>>   Amichai Rotman
>>  Penguin - FLOSS Computer Service and Technical Consulting
>>  +972-73-7962360 ||  +972-54-4605787
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Dotan,
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:29:31PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
>> > wrote:
>> > > > You'll need to access a running
>> > > > machine to extract the PCI ID information, though, since Gigabyte's
>> > manual is
>> > > > not very helpful.
>> > >
>> > > Is that the chicken, or the egg?
>> > >
>> > > In other words, if I did have access to a running system, I would
>> > > already know if it works or not!
>> >
>> > This board surely runs Windows. You can extract the PCI ID from its "Device
>> > Manager", or whatever it's called there.
>> >
>> > Also, some BIOSes list PCI devices with IDs in the initial screen.
>> >
>> > baruch
>
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