Francois Colonna wrote:
> Karl Misselt wrote:
>> Hi - I installed SL4.4 i386 on a new box here.  The hardware is 
>> fairly new and
>> required some tweaking to get up and running, so I figured I post the 
>> info in case
>> someone runs into similar problems.  The system has an Intel DP965LT 
>> MB with
>> on-board Gigabit ethernet and sound (Sigmatel 6-channel AC97 audio).  
>> SL (and by extension
>> RHEL) does not recognize the on-board Marvell IDE controller, so you 
>> need to start the
>> install 'all_generic_ide=1'  to install off the cd/dvd (and add it to 
>> the kernel line
>> in grub.conf if you subsequently want to use the cd! :).  The 
>> on-board network also
>> does not work with the stock e1000 driver, so you need to use a newer 
>> version. I used e1000-7.1.9 and it works fine - I assume later 
>> releases will also work and that
>> it should eventually make it up-stream.  The sound also does not 
>> work; I used a
>> patched alsa rpm from the vendor (ASLAB.com) and the onboard sound 
>> now also works. lspci:
>> IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 6101 
>> (rev b1)
>> Audio device: Intel Corp. 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller 
>> (rev 02)
>> Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection 
>> (rev 02)
>> -K
>>
> It will be nice to store this information on the Wiki, to allow people 
> to find it easily
> Here it is lost.
>
> Thanks
> François Colonna
>
>

Wiki's are nice, but may take a bit of admin time and some moderators to 
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