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Wed, 30 Aug 2006
Core 2 Duo Motherboards and Linux instability fun
I built myself a Core 2 Duo system recently with the hopes of running a much faster Linux setup than my old Athlon setup. However, what I ran fast into were compatibility issues. It seems that the JMicron chipset which is present in the MSI P965 Neo motherboard that I own is the culprit of many problems [1], [2], [3], [4]
A workaround which is to install Gentoo (Ubuntu Dapper folks does NOT work at this time) or some other distro besides Ubuntu and make sure to boot sending the kernel parameters all-generic-ide and irqpoll to make sure that the kernel does not completely bork itself on bootup. After that, you STILL have an issue with the Gigabit NIC that is included onboard. And NO, it is NOT in 2.6.17.x kernels or less. In fact you have to download the stupid thing from Realtek's website (HELLO, have we heard of merging into the kernel??) which can be found here.
Just for note, the 2.6.17-suspend-r4 kernel that I used with Gentoo does seem to cause some issues with the Realtek driver. I had to tweak some settings in the header files for the Realtek driver to get it to compile however I'm noticing that it is now causing OOPSes in 'dmesg' when I try to load the driver. These OOPsies are causing issues since the NIC refuses to come up during these problems.