Gwenole Beauchesne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > > Error scenario: when doing a network install, on recent > > machines, the network card seems to not respond (no DHCP answer > > received for > example) > > Why: problem with APIC > > Solution: type F1 then "linux noapic" when booting > > BTW, I saw that occuring on some instances of nvidia|via based > motherboards. It is currently workarounded on AMD64 with > > disabling APIC there by default. > > Could you please precise the type of those "recent machines"? On > plain x86, it should be even easier to blacklist those.
Happened for me with an Asus Terminator K7 DDR[1] which has an ASUS A7S motherboard owning a SiS 740 chipset (I think). How should I provide identification information? Ref: [1] http://www.asus.com/products/desktop/termk7_ddr/overview.htm -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
