problem with linux instalation
 

I have MB asus with intel 965G, and when I start RH AS 4.3 installation, I choose "install from CDROM", and message box appears:No driver found. Unable to find any devices of the type needed for this instalation type. Would you like to manually select you driver or use a driver disk?" What should I do? What does it means?

I think that you are experiencing the problem with ASUS's JMicron drivers, which do not have kernel support yet. The problem is pretty well known, and check how your distro handles it. Some distros have built in support for them, some require a preload of the JMicron drivers, and I think some just don't support them yet.

But I am pretty sure that is the issue [I had the same problem], and the solution should be known within your distro. Two distros that just work with JMicron are Ubuntu Edgy and PCLinuxOS in case you are looking.

Bob

Thank for you quick response, yes, my MB has JMicron SATA chip, but if I switch off it from BIOS, I can's see cdrom.

You've got me worried now. I just ordered an ASUS Pundit P3-PH5 board which has a JMicron JMB363 SATA controller. According to the specs that controller only handles the two ATA devices and the eSATA port on the back. The two internal SATA devices are managed by the Intel ICH8 southbridge, which is supposed to be supported so I'm hoping that I wont have any problems at least with those drives. Also, which version of the JMicron controller do you have? According to their site the JMB360 and JMB362 are supported by the 2.6.16 kernel and the JMB361 and JMB363 are supported by the 2.6.18.1 kernel and the JMB368 is supported by the 2.6.18.2 kernel. They've got a PDF listing all the OSs that their controllers support here: http://www.jmicron.com/JMB363.html
Here's a direct link to the PDF http://www.jmicron.com/PDF/OSSupport/OS_Support.pdf

Benazo-

Don't worry if you are using Ubuntu Edgy or later - they have built in support for the JMicron drivers, so the install just works with no problems. As Sluge discovered, just turning off the drivers gets you nowhere [tried it before I settled on Ubuntu]. My board is an ASUS P5B (Intel 965 chipset).

Sluge will have to dig up some info as to if and how JMicron is supported in his distro. I doubt that the problem has not been encountered before with his distro. Maybe there is an option to load a JMicron driver? That is how SUSE 10.2 handled it.

Another issue I encountered was with G-Parted Live. The version I used would not work with the JMicron, but it would work with the Mini-Server option.
Bob

That's good to hear. I'll be giving the ASUS boards with the Intel 965 chipset a big shout if this all goes smoothly with Ubuntu. So you didn't have any hiccups at all with the ICH8R southbridge or the JMicron JMB863 controller? Are you using Feisty?

Either way, I'm looking foreward to getting my hands on xorg 7.2 and the new mesa in feisty. Pretty much the whole reason I got this board was for the new G965 X3000 graphics from Intel. I'm getting about 2000 FPS with the Intel GM950 chip on my MacBook using the open source i810 driver. I can't wait to see what I'll get with the open source drivers for the new chip. Intel's open source drivers for their low-end graphics chips are approaching the same ballpark of performance from ATI and nVidia's proprietary stuff. The reason: Because Intel welcomes the xorg and mesa people to work on the drivers. It's basically free labor for the benefit of everyone involved. ATI and nVidia shun them. Just a different mindset I guess.

I am using Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy, Sony cd/rom, LiteOn DVD, WD SATA-250, 2GB RAM, Core2 Duo, nvidia video, Samsung LCD - no problems with install or use.

Bob

I bought recently a brand new computer.It's mobo is Asus M2R32-mvp http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l...96&modelmenu=2 here it says that Jmicron 360 support external sata i assume my 4 internal connectors too.I have heard about major problems about the kernel support of this controller.I am struggling for about 1/2 week to install ANY linux distribution that i have(And i have suse.10.2, all ubuntus exept the feisty fawn, mandriva 2007, many knoppixes etc) and at this time i managed only to install windows xp and NetBSD.Only Geparted live recognised my WD sata 2 hard disk.

openSuSe 10.2 also works with the chipset. When installing enable the generic ide driver host adaptor aswell as the jmicron driver. Otherwise it wont recognize your media to get past the advanced option screen.

In my experience, the issue has become irrelevant for most distros that were released over the last two. Good thing, I sure had fun with my ASUS P5B six or seven months ago ...

Asus P5B deluxe onboard WiFi Access Point - doesn´t work
 

Hello guys, can ANYBODY run access point (asus p5b) ANY linux? My distro is Ubuntu 6.10 ;) I have been tryin ndiswrapper as well, but failed everytime set up damned WLAN:Pengy:

I have Asus P5VD2-VM with Jmicro SATA controller and I try to install OpenSuSE 10.2 but installation faield with message: "No hard disks where fount for the installation."

On forums I found that in BIOS I must set for Jmicro "AHCI" mode and on booting I must enable next option: "boot:linux all-generic-ide=1" this not help me. Also I try with Jmicro set to "IDE", but and this option doesn't solve my problem. Please help.

Also somewhere I read that this is problem in linux-kernel, in openSuSE there is 2.6.18.2-34 kernel, updating the kernel will solve problem?

THX to all.