Strike one: MicroSod started complaining about the validity of my XP install - out.
Strike two: tried Ubuntu 7.10 instead - graphics (solved) and networking issues; tried for two days - out.
Strike three: running CentOS 5.1 now. Graphics is OK - nVidia recognized, network is a known issue on an Asus P5B, and the solution is to prepare a driver disk for the installation, and make a new r8168 network module afterwards. I know, that sounds strange, but the driver (install with "linux dd") was not included in the install; during install, the network was activated correctly, after a reboot, network failed to start.
Anyway - download the latest driver, and -as root- perform:
# cd /tmp/r8168-8.004.00
# make
# depmod -a
# modprobe r8168
# ifconfig -a
You should now see an active network link (eth0). Just add a line "alias eth0 r8168" to /etc/modprobe.conf and configure the interface. Reboot to see if everything works.
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