Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 12:18:49 +0200
From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
Subject: Re: Asus K8N-VM Motherboard Ethernet Problem
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On Sat, 2006-05-27 23:07:39 -0700, Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com> wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
[forcedeth not working correctly]
> Also - why is it that I can load a 3 year old version of Windows XP on=20
> this motherboad and it just work but I load a modern Linux Kernel and it=
=20
> can't find the Ethernet card?

That is either because Windows XP is totally superior to Linux, or
because the vendor (NVidia in this case) wrote a Windows driver, but
they didn't write something for Linux _and_ didn't publish any specs
for this ethernet controller.  So it took some time to reverse
engineer the Windows driver...

MfG, JBG

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