Linux and Asus P5GD1 PCI-E rig

[Rob_63]

I have been trying for a week to get a distro on my PCI-E rig and am having no luck. I have a 915P chipset Asus board and an X800XT PCI-E vid card. I cannot get this to configure the network properly (at all), even disabling the NIC in the bios and installing a PCI NIC card. there always seem to be errors when installing concerning the PCI bus and video, along with the inablity to establish the network connection.

I have tried:

Mepis3.3, and 2005
Ubuntu 5.04
Mandrake 10.1
Gentoo
Red hat.
Knoppix

However, I am able to get it installed on an older rig I have here, an old 845 chipset folding box.

Does Linux just not support PCI-E yet? I have an 865 Socket T board I could switch to and a 9800 vid card if this would work better.

any thoughts?

 

[Wyck]

You will have better luck with the 865 board but the 915p should work fine. If you have a non-ATI video card available I'd give that a shot though; they're generally troublesome.

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: Trucker61
I have been trying for a week to get a distro on my PCI-E rig and am having no luck. I have a 915P chipset Asus board and an X800XT PCI-E vid card. I cannot get this to configure the network properly (at all), even disabling the NIC in the bios and installing a PCI NIC card. there always seem to be errors when installing concerning the PCI bus and video, along with the inablity to establish the network connection.

I have tried:

Mepis3.3, and 2005
Ubuntu 5.04
Mandrake 10.1
Gentoo
Red hat.
Knoppix

However, I am able to get it installed on an older rig I have here, an old 845 chipset folding box.

Does Linux just not support PCI-E yet? I have an 865 Socket T board I could switch to and a 9800 vid card if this would work better.

any thoughts?

There is most definitely PCIe support in the kernel. Whether those distros have it compiled into the default kernel or as a module, I wouldn't know.

 

[Rob_63]

My main problem is getting connected to the network. None of those distros so far were able to connect me, and I am too iliterate with Linux to manually configure it. Evidently there is no support for the Marvel NIC, Asus has a linux driver for it but I am clueless as to how to install it, it is not executable. (ok, I admit, Bill Gates has me a bit soft)