Drivers for MSI motherboards.

[Franz Waldmüller]

Mike Hammel schrieb:
> I have installed a new MSI 865GM3-V motherboard in my computer.  I 
> downloaded (from another computer) 8.1 and installed.  All went pretty 
> well except some things don't work so well.  The USB optical mouse is a 
> bit flakey but the biggie is the onboard 10-100 Ethernet is not working 
> (although Ubuntu says I am connected to the network, I cannot get to the 
> internet).  I have tried several different internet connection 

Is there a dhcp-server on your network (a server which distributes 
IP-addresses automatically). Maybe you have an IP-Address but a wrong 
DNS configuration.
try to ping the computer with which you downloaded the ubuntu cd.
start a Terminal (applications-accessories) and type
ping IP-Address of any other computer in your network
or try to
ping 74.125.43.103
that is the IP-address of www.google.com, if the ping works you are 
connected to the internet but don't have access to a DNS-server
a DNS-Server "translates" www.someaddress.com to a corresponding IP-Address

Franz