Preparing FC6 on ASUS A8N-VM CSM with nVidia chipset

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 17:35:10 UTC 2007


On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:58:19 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:

> (my apologies if this arrives to the list twice, my ISP seems to have
> problems today)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have been asked to upgrade with FC6 x86_64 a computer with an ASUS
> A8N-VM CSM motherboard, with GeForce 6150 and nForce 430 chips for on
> board video, Ethernet and SATA controller.
> 
> If I understand correctly, I have to pass some special settings and/or
> drivers from nVidia during, or immediately after installation, in
> order to have full support for all the components above.
> 
> May I ask you, before attempting the installation, to help me put
> together a detailed list of all these things to do, in the right
> order? Ie which drivers download before install from where, which
> options to use for the kernel and/or during installation...
> 
> I'll post the final list and an install report here when I'm done, if
> needed.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Marco

I have this board.  When I installed FC5, the default kernel did not
have support for the network device.  So I just updated the kernel and all
was fine.  Because you are installing FC6, I don't anticipate any problem.
 It should go through without anything extra.

Akemi







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