Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2012/12/26 Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>:
> Hi Eliyahu,
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 03:45:27PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
>> Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum...
>
> Of course. But there is no guarantee that the covered range exactly overlaps
> the Windows driver one.
>
>> 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)
>
> Fast Ethernet is most likely 10/100, not GbE (10/100/1000).
Correct, I now also notice that the official specs on this laptop say
it's just 10/100, however that does not change the fact that according
to atheros it falls in the same family of chips....
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/catalog/search/?csrfmiddlewaretoken=9ec89be3308015f25587de8fd4cd11ff&query=atheros
>
> What is the output of 'lspci -n'?
1969:1090
>
>> 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
>
> Are you sure it is not 'atlx'?
my modprobe history don't lie ;) neither does lspci -v
Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו

>
> baruch
>
>> 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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