P4M800Pro-M v2 Fedora Core 6

Bought from WWW.PC-RACK.COM via e-bay. Sweet deal. Well put together machine (80Gb PATA HD, 512Mb of DDR2 DRAM).

Problem areas :

• Read that choice of Apperture size (64Mb) is important.
• Getting correct screen resolution (using only LCD display for set-up).

Disappearing network interface:

• Software Shutdown has no effect.
• Front panel power-off (held down until power-down) has no effect.
• Power cord removal (and power-supply power-down) for 5 seconds restores network card visibility.
• BIOS 061004 update didn´t have any effect.

Relevant web-sites :

• VIA Arena - Network Driver for FC6 for VT8237R
• FedoraForum.org - Fedora 6 install kernel option
• VIA Arena - Cannot find proper NIC
• VIA Arena - ECS P4M800PRO-M
• VIA Arena - Network Driver for FC6 for VT8237R