Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261323AbVCPR5M (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:57:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262714AbVCPR5L (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:57:11 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:48073 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261323AbVCPR5I (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:57:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:56:51 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Robert W. Fuller" Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI) Message-ID: <20050316175649.GD20576@kroah.com> References: <4237A5C1.5030709@sbcglobal.net> <20050315203914.223771b2.akpm@osdl.org> <4237C40C.6090903@sbcglobal.net> <20050315213110.75ad9fd5.akpm@osdl.org> <4237C61A.6040501@sbcglobal.net> <20050315215447.7975a0ff.akpm@osdl.org> <4237D92A.3040109@sbcglobal.net> <20050316171943.GC8602@kroah.com> <423871EE.5060206@sbcglobal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <423871EE.5060206@sbcglobal.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1207 Lines: 27 On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:50:38PM -0500, Robert W. Fuller wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:58:50AM -0500, Robert W. Fuller wrote: > >>>Are you running the latest BIOS? > >>The manufacturer, Tyan, didn't produce more than a handful of BIOS'es > >>within a matter of months after they started producing the board. They > >>haven't released an update since 2000. > >I used to have this motherboard, and Randy Dunlap and I spent a lot of > >time to try to get this to work properly. Just give up and go by a > >motherboard that actually has a sane bios, or, buy a USB pci card (less > >than $20). > > Tempting, but how do I know the new board will work? Shoot, it took me > about a year to get everything in this system to work excepting the USB. > Do you have any recommendations for a good Linux SMP motherboard, > preferably for AMD processors? Get a PCI USB card, that's the easiest solution (and cheapest.) Good luck, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/