One good report....

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-10-29 16:27, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser at chello.cz> wrote:
> # wollman at khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu / 2004-10-28 13:46:22 -0400:
> > I recently acquired a new FX-53 desktop.  I'm not yet ready to set it
> > up yet, so I took a few moments to burn an RC1 CD and try installing.
> > Everything worked flawlessly except for the onboard Marvell gigabit.
> > (I was able to use an Intel adapter instead.)  It took about fifteen
> > seconds to do a minimal installation.
> >
> > The motherboard is an Asus A8V Deluxe.
>
>     And I've been having a hell of a time with (plain old i386) Asus
>     A7V880: it doesn't want to work with a PCI graphics card (affects
>     both 4.10 and 5.3-RC1), and I still have to find out what's wrong
>     with the onboard SysKonnect NIC, but given I've been having little
>     luck with a (known good) xl card as well, that will probably turn
>     out to be a pilot error.

SysKonnect used to be *very* problematic with 5.X or later.  At least
that was the state of things during the summer and early in September
when I tried re-enabling the onboard adapter of my workstation at work.

I have to admit that I haven't tried recent CURRENT versions with the
same adapter though, so things might have changed since then.

- Giorgos