Justin,
Hi! I've purchased three of these ECS K7S5A motherboards (based upon
Sis 735 chipsets) and have installed Linux (specifically Debian 2.2r3,
with 2.2.19 kernel) on all of them without any difficulty or hiccups.
This would tend to suggest, as Alan implied, that the board is not
incompatible (at least not wildly so, as you describe) and that you
may have hardware issues, even if Windows does run on this setup.
The main issue that I believe exists with this board, or actually with
the board's chipset (people, please correct me if I'm wrong), is that
the current 2.2.19 does not support the built-in ethernet capabilities
of the Sis 735. I've tried Sis's patch for the kernel from their
website, but that won't even compile. I'm planning to look into Alan's
2.2.20pre11 release that supposedly includes a Sis900 chipset update
(Sis seems to suggest that the 900 and 735 use the same drivers, at
least to some degree) and maybe this will work. In the meantime, I
just installed a NIC.
Hope this helps, Justin. I'd love to hear if anyone else knows about
the Sis735 ethernet issue.
Take care,
Daniel
PS Please CC me on replies.
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