ICH8 chipset support?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Nick Sayer <nsayer at kfu.com> writes:

> I just upgraded my machine at home to a Conroy-ready motherboard - An
> Asus P5B. This particular motherboard has the smallest fraction of
> recognized devices I think I've ever come across. From what I can
> tell, the blame can be placed squarely on the Intel ICH8 chipset that
> supplies almost all of the devices in the system.
>
> USB is working, though it is recognized only generically. The ICH8
> SATA ports do not seem to work properly (thank goodness for the
> JMicro RAID controller - which can be used without RAID). The audio
> subsystem, SMB controller and the Realtek on-board Ethernet aren't
> recognized at all. There's an nVidia PCI Express graphics card in
> there too, but I probably won't even run X on this machine, much less
> 3D stuff.
>
> I'll attach the output from pciconf -l and the dmesg.boot. At this
> point, it is up, sort of.
>
> Is there any hope of improving support for this system?

*Some* improvement is probably pretty easy.  It doesn't seem to be
recognizing the System Management Bus at all, and just adding the
appropriate device IDs to the kernel tables might get the basic 
bus exploration to occur.  And then you'll see whether the drivers 
can attach...

Good luck.