On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> wrote: > What is specific to Ubuntu as far as MoBo is concerned? I would look at the > kernel. Are Ubuntu kernels very different? >
I don't suspect that Ubuntu is very different from what could be any other distro, but I mention Ubuntu (Kubuntu, specifically) because that is what I'll be using. With my last Asus motherboard install (summer 2012) Ubuntu did not have the proper NIC driver. I also could not build the proper one as *buntu does not come with the tools necessary to compile software. It was a real mess. The Gigabyte GA-H77M-D3H board comes with a "Atheros GbE LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)": http://il.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4143#sp There is no mention of which driver it needs, and I strongly suspect that the 1000 Mbit part requires nonconventional drivers as was the case with Asus board's NIC. There wasn't even a legacy mode for 10 Mbit communications. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il