On Wed 2005.03.16 at 17:42 +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
* L. V. Lammert <lvl_(_at_)_omnitec_(_dot_)_net> [2005-03-16 17:33]:
> At 05:14 PM 3/16/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >well, the really interesting question is what linux does to the chip
> >that it behaves like that. I have plenty of marvell-sks and none has
> >issues like that, but none has ever booted linux of course either.
>
> The Linux Knoppix 3.4 seemed to set the chip for an 'autoselect' mode, but
> when the sk0 driver booted it couldn't find any media. After forcing the
> Linux driver to a specific media (10/100), everything worked fine
until the
> port started locking up.
>
> Apparently there is an issue with the sk driver and ASUS MBs, but since
> adding a NIC is actually a decent solution (less than $10), it didn't seem
> worth spending the time to investigate.
I have plenty of asus mainboards with onboard sks and none has this
issue (again, never tortured them with linux either).
it is worth investigating.
so i've never booted anything but OpenBSD on this motherboard...i've
yet to download/boot linux knoppix or any linux, but might as well
to see what happens...( though openbsd will go it no matter what :)
however, looking through archives on netbsd and freebsd, this has been
seen before. i haven't found a patch that works for netbsd, and there
is some mongo patch for freebsd, which seems to do far more. i'll start
digging more and report back.
thanks.
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