[wellylug] Asus is anti-linux?
Sam Cannell
sam at plaz.net.nz
Fri Jul 16 23:20:09 NZST 2004
If I'm understanding the situation correctly, it's not likely to be
something Asus has done intentionally to sabotage Linux support for
their motherboards (which would be really silly). Sure, they don't have
all *that* to lose at this stage buy not supporting Linux, but they have
absolutely nothing to gain by breaking support deliberately.
It's far more likely that Marvell (the manufacturers of the network
controller chip they're using) have supplied some slightly different
controllers which don't function identically to the others.
Intel's chips are similar - they make many many subtly different gigabit
Ethernet controllers, all of which are called e1000 (or pro/1000). Some
of them are supported by the Linux e1000 driver, and some are not.
Luckily, the one on my motherboard is supported - it could just as
easily not have been.
All the conspiracy theorists should just calm down and think about it -
why would a company intentionally do something to make their product
less desirable? :)
Sam
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Subject: [wellylug] Asus is anti-linux?
Just something I picked up at newsforge.
I feel that perhaps ASUS motherboards arent the best thing to buy seeing
as they specifically block kernel configuration
http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html
This only seems to affect their latest motherboards.
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