Drivers for MSI motherboards.

[H.S.]

Mike Hammel wrote:
> 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 settings within Firefox to no avail.  Sound isn't working either.  But my printer does!  I have looked high and low for Linux drivers for this motherboard.  All I can find are Win drivers.  Any suggestions?  I am about ready to give up and go back to XP. 
> 

I recently saw a problem on a brand new assembled computer (Intel
chipset, Asus P5Q LE mobo). Ubuntu Hardy was installed and it was not
detecting the network card properly. Google search revealed that Asus
provided the drivers for linux. But our preference was to work only with
Ubuntu packages and kernels.

The solution was to install a newer kernel from Intrepid (using
/etc/apt/preferences file). The new kernel had the drivers built in and
the network worked wonderfully.

So if you are having any driver problems, first check which kernel you
are using:
$> uname -r

Then see if the hardware is supported in a newer version of the kernel.
If yes, then hopefully you can install the newer version from newer
Ubuntu releases' repo.

Regards.


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