A video card is probably cheaper. The good adapter boxes cost $$.

True, if you only use analog sound. Last I tried, I was unable to get the nForce4 to work with optical or coaxial S/PDIF out. It worked in R5A12 and stopped at R5A15, so it looks like an ALSA regression. If you can get it to work, I'd love to know how

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(Apologies for the minor digression) Mechanicsburg! I just noticed this... Wow, flashback to when I was living in MD and driving up Rt. 15 to WNY on a semi-regular basis... Despite loathing the traffic around Harrsiburg I still harbour some kindly memories of central PA...

My nForce3 motherboard worked fine under R16, but after upgrading to A22 the interface no longer has a correct mac address, being reported as FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

This can be resolved by assigning the mac address manualy

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
ifconfig eht0 up

However this is becoming a pain in the rear having to do this each time, although I could assisng it in the network init scripts. I suspect this is a 2.6.13 issue....

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Just doing some reading and it appears the mac address needs to be re-entered after a bios upgrade Will investigate tonight

Interesting...

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OK - fixed this problem. In the bios for this motherboard (MSI NEO2) there are some hidden options available, one being the ability to enter a mac address.

From the main bios screen

shift - f2
alt - f3

Once you do this the screen flashes quickly once and under the integrated peripherals there is now some new fields. Enter the mac address from the label on the parallel port block, seperated by : and away you go.

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