AJ ONeal wrote: > Onboard controller. It doesn't recognize my ethernet card either (but > surprisingly did detect my wireless). >
I recently tried to cure some winrot to play TF2 on my old socket 740 board (3.5 years, time to upgrade). Not only did it take a lot of BIOS tinkering to turn on my onboard promise RAID controller in "IDE compatibility mode" (a necessary non-intuitive HW step I would have had to figure out for Linux anyway) , but it also required the equivalent of a promise RAID controller driver for IDE mode to recognize my new SATA drive. My Marvell gigabit NIC also required the mobos driver CD, though most distros get it set up just fine. Oh, and winXP also required me to call M$ to re-register my computer with the drastic change of activating a mobo feature that's been there all along. I hope to avoid Vista altogether, though I suspect I should learn a little for support and compatibility reasons. Scott K. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
