No Net access

[Nick Mirkovich]

There was a series of news articles floating around a couple of months
back talking specifically about Asus mobo's and onboard network
interfaces.
You may want to Google this to get the details, but the short version of
these stories is: The onboard NIC's are NOT supported when running Linux
on many Asus mobo's. You'll need to buy a PCI NIC or replace the mobo
with one from another vendor.
Essentially, Asus has no real desire to support Linux on their products.
In light of this "attitude", many Linux users, like myself, have stopped
buying Asus products. There was also talk of a boycott of Asus.

This is not likely what you wanted to hear but it may well be the source
of your headaches.

Good Luck,
Nick



On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 18:48, Lukas Kolbe wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 02.10.2004, 14:55 -0600 schrieb Travis Hagglund:
> >  am a newbie, so it you have a fix for me, please be verbose. 
> >  
> > Mobo - Asus P4C800 with integrated 3Com 3C940 controller
> >  
> > The Sarge installer sets up internet access with no problems (ADSL).
> 
> I think ubuntu doesn't come with a graphical frontend to configure adsl.
> You can just open up a terminal and type 'sudo pppoeconf', as far as I
> know that gets installed with the default system. pppoeconf then asks
> some questions regarding your dsl-setup and should start up the internet
> connection for you.
> 
> > Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Lukas
> 
>