Newbie: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe BIOS question

[steve h.]

Hi,
I think I have Award 6.0 BIOS with my A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo. Can you
"disable" the built-in LAN on this mobo via the BIOS ? Can you configure
the NIC card at all on this BIOS ? Thanks so much in advance.
Steve

 

[steve h.]

Configure the Nic?

Yes you can turn them off.

What types of "Configuration" do you need?

I am having trouble getting Mandrake 9.2 OS to work with my mobo. The NIC
card is being recognized but I cannot configure it correctly for either a
direct connection to my cable modem or a connection to my D-Link router.
Any suggestions about the BIOS or otherwise ? Thanks again.

 

[rstlne]

Hi,
I think I have Award 6.0 BIOS with my A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo. Can you
"disable" the built-in LAN on this mobo via the BIOS ? Can you configure
the NIC card at all on this BIOS ? Thanks so much in advance.
Steve

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Configure the Nic?

Yes you can turn them off.

What types of "Configuration" do you need?

 

[stanmc]

I am having trouble getting Mandrake 9.2 OS to work with my mobo. The
NIC card is being recognized but I cannot configure it correctly for
either a direct connection to my cable modem or a connection to my
D-Link router. Any suggestions about the BIOS or otherwise ? Thanks again.

Is this possibly related to the VPD info missing in the 1GHz nic
equipped Asus boards? There is a patch available that allows the Linux
OS to recognize this NIC and work with it.
The patch is something "sk98lin".

 

[steve h.]

Is this possibly related to the VPD info missing in the 1GHz nic
equipped Asus boards? There is a patch available that allows the Linux
OS to recognize this NIC and work with it.
The patch is something "sk98lin".

I think you are right, the url for the download is below:

http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/d0102_driver.html

 

[stanmc]

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I think you are right, the url for the download is below:

http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/d0102_driver.html

Please let us know if that is the solution to the problem and any info
on how it worked or what you had to do to make it work.

 

[steve h.]

Please let us know if that is the solution to the problem and any info
on how it worked or what you had to do to make it work.

Ok, will do. I'm struggling with a CD burner project right now.

 

[john]

Please let us know if that is the solution to the problem and any info
on how it worked or what you had to do to make it work.

Ok, another dumb newbie question: how do I insert the patch into the
kernel during installation ? I need a step by step explanation, being a
newbie. Thank you so much for your time.
Steve

 

[Steve H.]

Please let us know if that is the solution to the problem and any info
on how it worked or what you had to do to make it work.

very late update: after I jiggered the configuration program for a
while in MDK 9.2, it finally recognized my NIC card andn it worked
fine.