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Special Forums Hardware Does this hardware works with Linux Post 302986374 by Corona688 on Thursday 24th of November 2016 11:00:46 AM
Old 11-24-2016
Linux's relationship with hardware is very different than the relationship of Microsoft with hardware vendors. Linux doesn't know, or even care really, what model a motherboard is. It just scans the plug-and-play bus to get the list of devices, and checks whether it has drivers for them or not. This has always meant that "compatibility lists" for Linux are going to be very incomplete. Without buying and testing every possible motherboard on the planet, how would we ever know?

There is probably at least partial support for most PC hardware on the market, though, and workarounds for a lot of the rest, or eventual fixes. The biggest showstoppers are liable to be graphics related, as the drivers for those are always going to be proprietary, it seems, and fixes mean "bugging the vendor for a new version". Search for these motherboard models plus "linux" or "ubuntu" to see if any linux users have reported problems and/or workarounds for them. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but until some other linux user buys it and tries it out and reports their success or failure, conclusive evidence will be scarce to none.
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

ixg

IXG(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    IXG(4)

NAME

     ixg -- Intel(R) 10Gb Ethernet driver

SYNOPSIS

     ixg* at pci? dev ? function ?

DESCRIPTION

     The ixg driver provides support for PCI 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on the Intel(R) 82598EB and 82599 10 GbE Controllers.  The driver sup-
     ports Jumbo Frames, TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO).

     For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation supplied with your Intel 10GbE adapter.  All hardware requirements
     listed apply to use with NetBSD.

     Support for Jumbo Frames is provided via the interface MTU setting.  Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility
     configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames.  On NetBSD, the maximum MTU size for Jumbo Frames is 9000 bytes.

     This driver version supports VLANs.  For information on enabling VLANs, see ifconfig(8).

HARDWARE

     The ixg driver supports the following cards:

     o	 Intel(R) 10 Gigabit XF SR/AF Dual Port Server Adapter
     o	 Intel(R) 10 Gigabit XF SR/LR Server Adapter
     o	 Intel(R) 82598EB 10 Gigabit AF Network Connection
     o	 Intel(R) 82598EB 10 Gigabit AT CX4 Network Connection

DIAGNOSTICS

     ixg%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

     ixg%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: interrupt	A fatal initialization error has occurred.

     ixg%d: watchdog timeout -- resetting  The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with the network connection
     (cable).

SUPPORT

     For general information and support, go to the Intel support website at: http://support.intel.com.

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), netintro(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The ixg device driver comes from FreeBSD, where it is called ixgbe(4).  It first appeared in NetBSD 6.0.

AUTHORS

     The ixg driver was written by Intel Corporation <freebsdnic@mailbox.intel.com>.  It was imported from FreeBSD into NetBSD by
     David Young <dyoung@NetBSD.org>.

BUGS

     The hardware supports a maximum MTU of 16114 bytes, but the NetBSD port of the driver supports only 9000 bytes.

     The hardware supports Message-Signalled Interrupts (MSI and MSI-X) and Receive-Side Scaling (RSS), however, these features are not enabled in
     the NetBSD driver at this time.

BSD
								   July 25, 2011							       BSD
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