Re: [LinuxBIOS] where are we on the MSI K9N Neo-F?

2007-08-15 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 13.08.2007 01:29, Peter Stuge wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 06:25:26PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: It's cheap and on the face of it should be fairly easy to port - MCP55 chipset, etc. There was some concern about the ehternet card? For LB purposes the NIC is not likely to cause

Re: [LinuxBIOS] where are we on the MSI K9N Neo-F?

2007-08-14 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:46:53AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: PLCC in socket? Which flash part? For the MSI K9N Neo (MS-7260), which I happen to own: PLCC, in a socket. I'll test flashrom later, but IIRC correctly it didn't work out of the box when I first tried it. Is the problem the flash

Re: [LinuxBIOS] where are we on the MSI K9N Neo-F?

2007-08-14 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:21:22PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: Is the problem the flash chip or the southbridge? Not sure, but I'll find out. OK, seems to be a mainboard issue: $ flashrom -wv foo.bin Calibrating delay loop... ok No LinuxBIOS table found. Found chipset NVIDIA MCP55: Enabling

Re: [LinuxBIOS] where are we on the MSI K9N Neo-F?

2007-08-14 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:28:10PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:21:22PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: Is the problem the flash chip or the southbridge? Not sure, but I'll find out. OK, seems to be a mainboard issue: Found chipset NVIDIA MCP55: Enabling flash

Re: [LinuxBIOS] where are we on the MSI K9N Neo-F?

2007-08-14 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 06:42:27PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:28:10PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:21:22PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: Is the problem the flash chip or the southbridge? Not sure, but I'll find out. OK, seems to be a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] where are we on the MSI K9N Neo-F?

2007-08-14 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:52:44PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: All other problems have also been with the PMC parts IIRC. Do you have any other LPC flash chips? I don't think the chip is the problem; Not the particular chip, but I would like to rule out the chip type. I just tested

[LinuxBIOS] where are we on the MSI K9N Neo-F?

2007-08-12 Thread Ward Vandewege
I'm looking to buy a new desktop machine today or tomorrow. There were several posts last November bout the MSI K9N Neo-F: http://www.openbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2006-November/thread.html Where are we with that board? It's cheap and on the face of it should be fairly easy to port - MCP55

Re: [LinuxBIOS] where are we on the MSI K9N Neo-F?

2007-08-12 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 06:25:26PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: Where are we with that board? I don't think anyone got around to it. It's cheap and on the face of it should be fairly easy to port - MCP55 chipset, etc. There was some concern about the ehternet card? For LB purposes the NIC

Re: [LinuxBIOS] where are we on the MSI K9N Neo-F?

2007-08-12 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 07:25:17PM -0500, David H. Barr wrote: Where are we with that board? I don't think anyone got around to it. I never got around to it; stalled at flashrom support. Didn't flashrom work at least with the flash chip on the Gigabyte board? (I remember there were

Re: [LinuxBIOS] where are we on the MSI K9N Neo-F?

2007-08-12 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:46:53AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: Didn't flashrom work at least with the flash chip on the Gigabyte board? (I remember there were problems with BIOS savior, but seem to recall that flashing the chip alone worked OK.) Yeah, it works fine. I was having some problems

Re: [LinuxBIOS] where are we on the MSI K9N Neo-F?

2007-08-12 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:26:20PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: I was having some problems with flashrom while running LB (but *not* while running the proprietary bios) a few months ago, but I need to revisit that. I'll make a trac bug if the problem persists with the latest and greatest