So I ran into a little trouble with a new PBX I'm building.
I put together a nice system, P4 Prescott, 1gb DDR2, 160GB Sata, and a DG965RY motherboard from Intel.
I had thought I did my homework before ordering but apparently I had another motherboard in mind and ordered this one instead,,,, but I move on.....
This was the first motherboard I have had any issues loading linux with. I ran into issues with the chipset, ethernet and sata drives. The main issue is that when trying to load the OS, in this case I tried Centos 4 and Ubuntu 6.10, it would not recognize the Sata drive or the Ethernet drive. I searched the net up and down looking for answers and the only answers that I came up with was this motherboard and the 965 chipset do not play well with linux. After all my attempts I ended up getting another motherboard from Foxconn.
What happened when I plugged in the Foxconn board? Well, everything worked perfectly. I did not have to load any external drivers, or anything. It found all my hardware and went through the install without issues. Now I have asterisks up and running on a nice box for my customer. Now I just need to get the carrier setup so I can go through and configured all the trunks, extensions etc...
Just thought I would share a bit. Stay clear of the intel boards, esp the ones with this chipset.
Or if you had this issue and have a fix please email me and I will post it up.
Paul
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