Re: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe and Intel Pro/1000

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Terry Hardie wrote:
> Well, this has been plauging me for months, and finally figured it out.
> 
> Any 2.6 kernel on my board, would boot, then give errors (paraphrased,
> sorry) when I tried to bring up the ethernet:
> 
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> IRQ #18: Nobody cared!
> 
> And no ethernet conectivity.
> 
> The Fix: Update bios from asus' website. I guess their ACPI was screwed
> up. This is the second time I've had to update this MB to fix
> incompatibilities with Linux. So, watch out with Asus boards on Linux.
> 
> BTW - Linux 2.4's driver worked fine with the old bios. Only 2.6 didn't
> work.

I'm having that problem, although I didn't with 2.6.7. I'll grab the 
latest BIOS, I have the P4P800 installed, and a P4P800-E deluxe in the 
box with CPU and parts to make it work. Just no particular need for 
another system at this instant.

I think it *may* be related to the VIA RAID controller, although I 
haven't had time to do reboots to see, since I'm trying to get the 
*&*^%&^% i810 audio into 4 channel mode at the moment, which I need more 
than 2.6.

Actually, until 2.6 will use the VIA controller I can't run it full time 
anyway.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979