I am scoping out AM2 based motherboards to test SVM at home. I see the ASUS M2NPV-VM mentioned a few times with good feeling, but I want to know if there are others as well, AND is there any driver problems. As usual, AM2 is new and the motherboards are sometimes lacking drivers for LAN, audio, etc. I was looking at the ASUS M2V and M2N-E, and either here problems about lack of drivers for LAN and SATA controllers and no news at all. For the people that have the ASUS M2NPV-VM, does the onboard SATA, LAN, audio, video all work with the xen 3.0.2 tarball?? I''d rather not have to compile patched kernels, yet. Thanks, Greg _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Gregory Gee wrote:> > I am scoping out AM2 based motherboards to test SVM at home. I see the > ASUS M2NPV-VM mentioned a few times with good feeling, but I want to > know if there are others as well, AND is there any driver problems. As > usual, AM2 is new and the motherboards are sometimes lacking drivers for > LAN, audio, etc. I was looking at the ASUS M2V and M2N-E, and either > here problems about lack of drivers for LAN and SATA controllers and no > news at all. For the people that have the ASUS M2NPV-VM, does the > onboard SATA, LAN, audio, video all work with the xen 3.0.2 tarball?? > I''d rather not have to compile patched kernels, yet.no idea whether they are in the default xen builds, but at least for the m2n-e in front of me... The SATA control wants CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV and the LAN wants CONFIG_FORCEDETH Wish I had known it was that simple, would have made my install go a _lot_ faster. -Tom _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Gregory Gee wrote: > >> >> I am scoping out AM2 based motherboards to test SVM at home. I see >> the >> ASUS M2NPV-VM mentioned a few times with good feeling, but I want to >> know if there are others as well, AND is there any driver problems. As >> usual, AM2 is new and the motherboards are sometimes lacking drivers for >> LAN, audio, etc. I was looking at the ASUS M2V and M2N-E, and either >> here problems about lack of drivers for LAN and SATA controllers and no >> news at all. For the people that have the ASUS M2NPV-VM, does the >> onboard SATA, LAN, audio, video all work with the xen 3.0.2 tarball?? >> I''d rather not have to compile patched kernels, yet. > > no idea whether they are in the default xen builds, but at least for the > m2n-e in front of me... > > The SATA control wants CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV > and the LAN wants CONFIG_FORCEDETH > > Wish I had known it was that simple, would have made my install go a _lot_ > faster. > > > -TomThanks for the info. Are these kernel build parameters or xen? If not default xen builds, what version of the kernel are you running? Thanks, Greg _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> > > > no idea whether they are in the default xen builds, but at least for the > > m2n-e in front of me... > > > > The SATA control wants CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV > > and the LAN wants CONFIG_FORCEDETH > > Thanks for the info. Are these kernel build parameters or xen? If not > default xen builds, what version of the kernel are you running?Those are the drivers that need to be in your dom0 kernel. They are not kernel version specific... or should not be, and since xen is, xen will answer the question of which kernel for you ... When you install xen, you should end up with files in /boot/ like config-2.6.16-xen or config-2.6.16-xen0 ... (whatever your choice of kernels etc. I don''t have a binary tarball handy.) If you grep for the above parameters in those config files, you should see whether or not those drivers were compiled in. e.g. [root@hvm /boot]# grep _FORCEDETH config-2.6.16-xen0 config-2.6.16-xenU config-2.6.16-xen0:CONFIG_FORCEDETH=m -Tom _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Mogens Valentin
2006-Aug-13 21:54 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] AM2 motherboard drivers?? (asus m2n-e)
Tom Brown wrote:> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Gregory Gee wrote: > > >> I am scoping out AM2 based motherboards to test SVM at home. I see the >>ASUS M2NPV-VM mentioned a few times with good feeling, but I want to >>know if there are others as well, AND is there any driver problems. As >>usual, AM2 is new and the motherboards are sometimes lacking drivers for >>LAN, audio, etc. I was looking at the ASUS M2V and M2N-E, and either >>here problems about lack of drivers for LAN and SATA controllers and no >>news at all. For the people that have the ASUS M2NPV-VM, does the >>onboard SATA, LAN, audio, video all work with the xen 3.0.2 tarball?? >>I''d rather not have to compile patched kernels, yet. > > > no idea whether they are in the default xen builds, but at least for the > m2n-e in front of me... > > The SATA control wants CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV > and the LAN wants CONFIG_FORCEDETH > > Wish I had known it was that simple, would have made my install go a _lot_ > faster.That what nforcershq.com is for ;) -- Kind regards, Mogens Valentin _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Saturday 12 August 2006 11:23 pm, Gregory Gee wrote:> For the people that have the ASUS M2NPV-VM, does the > onboard SATA, LAN, audio, video all work with the xen 3.0.2 tarball?? > I''d rather not have to compile patched kernels, yet.I''m not sure about the tarball, but I''m using SUSE 10.1 and all of the hardware worked out of the box. I had a few problems with Xen, but SUSE provided updated kernel and Xen packages that solved them. -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Thomas Harold
2006-Sep-16 16:32 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] AM2 motherboard drivers?? (asus m2n-e)
Gregory Gee wrote:>> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Gregory Gee wrote: >> >>> I am scoping out AM2 based motherboards to test SVM at home. I see >>> the >>> ASUS M2NPV-VM mentioned a few times with good feeling, but I want to >>> know if there are others as well, AND is there any driver problems. As >>> usual, AM2 is new and the motherboards are sometimes lacking drivers for >>> LAN, audio, etc. I was looking at the ASUS M2V and M2N-E, and either >>> here problems about lack of drivers for LAN and SATA controllers and no >>> news at all. For the people that have the ASUS M2NPV-VM, does the >>> onboard SATA, LAN, audio, video all work with the xen 3.0.2 tarball?? >>> I''d rather not have to compile patched kernels, yet. >> no idea whether they are in the default xen builds, but at least for the >> m2n-e in front of me... >> >> The SATA control wants CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV >> and the LAN wants CONFIG_FORCEDETH >> >> Wish I had known it was that simple, would have made my install go a _lot_ >> faster. >> >> >> -Tom > > Thanks for the info. Are these kernel build parameters or xen? If not > default xen builds, what version of the kernel are you running? >Which motherboard did you end using? I''m in the middle of building a M2N-E system and I''m curious whether there are specific BIOS versions that need to be used. OTOH, the Xen test CD from Aug 2006 seems to be working, but I''m not done running the tests. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users