Well, I guess I just have to wait for a kernel that supports the nic.

Funny thing on the sound...I went into Kmix and cranked the levels all the way up..then tried asteroids...no sound.
found the settings info.again under sound setup.its in a setup program for the sound that says not to run it from the x window interface (looks kind of like a DOS window and has no mouse support) . It still reports the drivers not in the path.
however the driver DOES appear to be loaded in the config.(EM10k1?...not the midi emulator I thought)

But when I shut down to exit the system then it played a sound ("shutting down system" quite loudly and clearly..
strange.

Anyway the onboard AC97 sound is disabled in bios.
Also I should mention that this IS an Nforce chipset (although the Nic is not the standard) and I'm using ACPI for interupt handling.

Could that have anything to do with the problems? I don't want to change that setting in bios cause it could trash the XP boot from what I've heard. If I forget to set it back it is a major problem. I want to stay with the LIVE CD for now.


I looked through the configuration of the system and noticed one other thing. Under the network devices it lists the R8169 as m.
Being a noob in linux i'm not sure how I can change it (or what to change it to) unless I do ahard install anmd recompile...which is more than I care to do just to see if I like the OS..

thanks again.
Been cruising looking for any live CD that might support the nic...no luck so far.

UPDATEö managed to dowload the 3.4 beta ...problems still )sound and language,,,but I postingthis from knoppix..Kewl