On July 15, 2004 20:06, Lanman wrote: > Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > I've seen some people on this list having trouble getting their network > > interfaces working. This may be unrelated, but FYI: > > > > http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html > > > > The moral of the story is don't buy ASUS motherboards. > > Interesting article Ron, but like any other situation there's always > another side to the facts. I can only speak from my experience, but > since 1996 I've sold over 3500 PC's and servers, and with most of those, > the boards have been Asus. > > Anytime I've spoken to the Asus reps, they've been very helpful and even > told me who to speak to at their call-center. In one case, I was asked > for my advice by one of the techs about which board to use! Later that > same tech called me back to confirm that he had built his personal > system and loaded Mandrake 9.2 on it without a hitch. He was very > grateful for my advice. > > In all the time I've used Asus boards, I've had two problems that > weren't related to my own errors. The A7V-133 board had a bad run of > Chipset cooling fans (which Asus promptly replaced via overnight > courier), and the A7V8X which had the first broadcom 4401 onboard NIC, > and that problem was due to the fact that a proper driver module hadn't > been built into the 2.4 kernel at that point. > > Even their relatively new Asrock line of boards which are a low-end > board haven't given me one speck of hassle with Linux. These guys in the > article may be 100% right about their experience with Asus, but I'm > wondering if they don't actually have a defective board and need to > concentrate on replacing it. > > Since the P5A, through the entire lineup of A7V's, A7N266 boards, and > currently the P4S800 and P4P800-MX, these boards have been amazingly > rock-solid for me, and the Asus reps I've met at the trade conferences > have been very honest and helpful, so either these guys just got the > wrong guy at the Asus end of the phone, or I'm the luckiest SOB on the > planet. > > Just my 0.02 cents. > > Lanman
Well, I'm just reporting what I read. I can't really comment beyond that, not having dealt with motherboards since the '70s (pre-IBM-PC). But I noticed they said the ASUS boards used to work, and that this is only a recent change. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL.
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