[Discuss] Motherboard recommendations for integrated Intel graphics and gigabit networking?

[chris wakefield]

OnOctober 16, 2007 11:32:36 am Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Barbara and I plan to buy new hardware with integrated Intel graphics and
> gigabit networking.  One vendor recommended the Gigabyte 965G-DS3
> motherboard which includes the Intel G965 chipset with X3000 graphics core
> and the Marvell 8056 PCI-E gigabit ethernet controller.  The X3000 graphics
> core seems to have okay Linux support at this time. However, the Marvell
> 8056 seems problematic for Linux at this time.
>
> According to the thread at
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/any-solution-for-the-s
>ky2-driver-for-marvell-8056-549244/?s=555b77911e26b6772f35a89d735329fe the
> 8056 was so problematic with Linux that it was disabled for a recent
> (2007-05-09) Linux kernel, and then for a later experimental kernel it
> became enabled again except for Gigabyte motherboards whose gigabit
> networking is blacklisted until the issue is sorted out.
>
> Since this issue has been known for a number of months this year, I think
> it is going to take a while to solve even for experimental kernels, and
> then it will take several more months to propagate to vendor kernels.
> Therefore, we don't want to delay the whole hardware buy until this issue
> is resolved.
>
> Can somebody recommend a recent motherboard with integrated Intel graphics
> and gigabit networking that works well for Linux?
>
> Alan
> __________________________
> Alan W. Irwin

Hi Alan.

There was a recent thread on the debian-amd64 list regarding this topic.  This 
link may be of help:
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20071009.172956.483d4efd.en.html

Chris W.