No Net access

[Ray Banks]

I have an ASUS P4P800 SE with on-board Marvel Yukon gigabit networking.
Ubuntu recognised the card, installed the drivers, and I have immediate
net access. So, some ASUS boards are fine on Linux !

Ray



On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 08:11 -0400, Nick Mirkovich wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
> 
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