Comments on: Linux on a J7F4K1G2E-PB

By: Louis-Dominique

Louis-Dominique — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:24:46 +0000

I have not tried other drivers. As far as I know both ethernet ports should use the same driver. I would guess if 10.04 has one port working but not the other, there must be some driver/kernel parameter which must be set. I have not upgraded yet but eventually I will have to. Unfortunately, I do not have time to research this right now.

By: Shamus

Shamus — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:09:06 +0000

I too seem to have LAN problems; I have tried installing 10.04 server, 9.04 and eventually had to settle on 8.04. One of the Ethernet ports is working, but the other won’t.

My main issue is getting Avahi to work properly. I think I’ve traced the problem to the fact that Avahi needs the LAN driver to properly handle multi-cast.

From what I can see, Hardy Heron is using the r8169 driver; have you tried any others? I found the following post https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/linux/+bug/562742 but haven’t had a chance to try alternatives.

Just looking to see if anyone else has figured out the LAN drivers.

By: Louis-Dominique

Louis-Dominique — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:00:40 +0000

The LAN driver which is loaded on mine is r8169. Still using Hardy Heron as my distro.

By: Paul K

Paul K — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:32:11 +0000

Paul, it must in our name. I have the same problem.
The 1GB memory is only detected as 512 MB.

Have you solved this problem already?

Another question, I can’t get the LAN working (yet)
Any ideas? What driver to use?

By: Louis-Dominique

Louis-Dominique — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:58:58 +0000

Paul, I checked out the doc for your RAM module a bit and checked out the motherboard’s doc again but I can’t quite see what would be the problem. I must say it has been a very long time since I’ve had to deal with the fine details of how RAM operates and there may be something evident I’m missing.

My RAM module just needed to have the motherboard DRAM timing settings tweaked a bit for stability but the entirety of it was recognized right off the bat.

I’m sorry I cannot be more helpful.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:37:44 +0000

Hello, Louis. I’m trying to buy a RAM for this motherboard. I have bought Samsung ddr2 1GB pc2-5300 k4t1g084qd-zce6 but it was detected by BIOS and by OS as 512 MB. I don’t know what’s wrong with this memory, but it is detected as 1GB on other motherboards. Do you know what type of memory is compatible with this motherboard?

By: Louis-Dominique

Louis-Dominique — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:08:44 +0000

Please let us know how it goes.

The NAS I’ve set up using this motherboard has been running quite well for several months now. I have been away from home the past few months so I have not had a chance to check on the speaker problem again but I’m going to be back home soon.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:51:25 +0000

Thank you for information. I’m waiting for this motherboard to be shipped for me. I’m going to install gentoo linux on this hardware, and I hope it will be quiet easy. I’ll keep in ming your notes.

By: Louis-Dominique

Louis-Dominique — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:06:48 +0000

Tom, I have not paid close attention to the clock. I’ve noticed today that it was fast by at least one hour. Somehow, it seems that ntpdate-debian is not being run at decent intervals on my machine.

I’ll keep an eye on this. Thanks for reporting.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:44:58 +0000

I’m using this motherboard with Debian. It seems like the system clock is quite a bit slow: 15 seconds in just one hour of mostly being idle. Have you noticed something similar?