[mythtv-users] Quality control issues with Acer Revo AR1600 or is it me?

[Scott Alfter]

On 11 Jun 10 06:14, Daniel Born wrote:
>>> Anybody else see anything like this? could it be a hardware design
>>> issue? a driver issue (the external network adapter is not nVidia
>>> hardware so it uses a different driver), could it be a firmware issue
>>> (my unit has the most recent).
> 
> I'm currently running with Mythbuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31.22 and also tried
> with just XUbuntu, KUbuntu, Ubuntu 9.10 32&64 bits, Ubutu 10.04 (release
> candidate at the time), with GBit and 100MBit connections and it _seemed_
> like 10.04 was giving a more stable connection (or I just didn't experiment
> long enough with it).

I had some problems at first bringing up Gentoo on mine...eth0 wouldn't fire up
properly on boot, but logging in and issuing "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart"
would get it running.  IIRC, a BIOS update fixed this misbehavior.  You might
want to make sure you're running the most recent BIOS.

Scott Alfter
scott at alfter.us