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General => Installation issues => Topic started by: nosebreaker on December 12, 2008, 01:12:48 am
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I'm using an old 3com 3C905B for now, but I need dual NICs for the core. This board seems to have a Realtek 8211BL NIC onboard. I can't find a driver for it, does anyone know if its supported? I'm using a blank Kubuntu 7.10 install right now, LMCE is next.
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Its always 2min after I ask that I find the answer. I've been searching for an hour, and just now I find it (scroll down to nator's reply):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=723569
Will post if this fixes the issue.
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Nope, didn't work. Now for some reason KDM won't even start! At least the console works...
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Not sure why, but the nvidia driver doesn't work now. The vesa driver works though. It seems like the driver isn't being loaded, even though I compiled it.
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So this board basically sucks. The NIC, video, and sound all don't work properly with Linux. There seems to be hacks for each of them, but I can't get them to work. At this point I wouldn't recommend this board for LMCE. I think I'm going to return it and try another, any suggestions? I need 3 PCI slots if there is only one onboard NIC, 2 if there is one. I have a nvidia 8500 that I can use if the system doesn't have an onboard nvidia video card.