Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2013/6/30 Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>:
> Hi Eliyahu,
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 04:11:57PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
>> 2012/12/26 Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>:
>> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 03:45:27PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
>> > 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
>
> The alx driver was merged into the mainline kernel a few days ago (commit
> ab69bde6 "alx: add a simple AR816x/AR817x device driver"). Its list of
> supported PCI IDs include PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATTANSIC:ALX_DEV_ID_AR8162 (=
> 1969:1090). Kernel version 3.10 which is about to be released in a few days,
> should have support for this hardware out of the box.
Cool :)
I hope they also solved the issue with it preventing suspend.... (I
now unload it manually and only reload it when I need wired
networking)
Although that may be a pm bug and not kernel...

Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו

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