Re: P4P800 SE -- drivers for networking?

In article <nospam-2901062117100001@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, nospam@xxxxxxxxxx
(Paul) wrote:
>
> Your manual should have a drawing of the motherboard, and you
> will see a 88E8001 drawn in the picture.
>
> The motherboard CD supports multiple motherboards, and when
> you insert the CD into the computer, autorun should bring up
> a dialog. Section 5.2.1 in the manual, shows a Marvell driver
> offered as the last menu item. Try installing that.
>
> Of the drivers, the motherboard CD might well have a 7.x
> version driver. Be aware that there was one bad driver from
> Marvell, something like 8.35.2.3 or so. That one will cause
> the machine to freeze at random times. Drivers earlier or
> later than that should be OK.
>
> http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/p4p800-se/Marvell_7.zip
>
> There is one setting in the BIOS, "Onboard LAN" [Enabled],
> and that is the default. You might check that it is
> at that default value.
>
> The Gigabit Ethernet interface on your new board, will
> support the ability to roll the cable automatically. When
> connecting to your Mac, it won't matter whether you use
> a straight thru cable, or a crossover cable, it should
> still make the connection. To connect at gigabit rates,
> the cable should have eight wires, at 10/100BT only four
> are required.
>
> Paul
Paul,

I checked in the BIOS and the on-board LAN is enabled but the onboard LAN
boot ROM is disabled. What is the LAN boot ROM? Would enabling that make
any difference? Presumably is is not strictly needed or else it would be
enabled by default?

I tried manually installing the Marvell driver but it did not work. I'll
try downloading the driver from ASUS and see how that goes. Interestingly
the support CD does not bring up the Marvell driver as a menu item so I
don't know what is going on there because the motherboard definitely has
the LAN chip.

Chris
.

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