I had SuSE 8.0 installed with another mtherboard and then I installed this motherboard. SuSE coped successfully with the change, apart from some problems due to lack of driver suport. First of alla the integrated network card does not work on Linux and secondly the integrated audio card (based on Realtek ALC650) is recognized as AC97, but sometimes stops to work correctly (workaround: in such a case I remove and reload the audio driver from YAST2). For the network adapter I found no workaround, but I bought a separate network card based on chip Realtek RTL8139C, with wake up lan support (costs only 6.00 EUR !!). It is recognized and works perfectly.

I have the A7V8X motherboard with all the bells and whistles (Serial-ATA, IEEE1394, Raid, Audio, GBit-LAN.). It works with RedHat 7.3, with some minor tweaks. I needed to install the VIA 82xx ALSA module to get sound working properly. Now, it works beautifully. Also, I noticed that I was getting rather poor drive performance. I believe that the kernel didn\'t allow DMA over the 8235 IDE controller, as it was not officially supported by the kernel. The 2.4.20 kernel, however, has support for the 8235, and now my harddrive performance is wonderful. As far as I can tell, the onboard BroadCom networking is unsupported indefinitely. BroadCom says to contact the hardware vendor to get drivers, and Asus has no drivers posted.

The current entry claims no support for the onboard NIC. The drivers for the onboard NIC are provided in source code form on the CD that is provided by ASUS with the motherboard. It is not mentioned in the manual, but it is there. This includes support for both the Broadcom 4400 and 5702 (CD directory Drivers/LAN/{4401,5702}). The 4401 driver compiled and loaded cleanly for my Redhat 8.0 system. There appears to be an updated 5702 driver on the Asus website (15/12/2002)

Despite earlier comments, the ASUS A7V8X motherboard's Broadcom Ethernet link works right out of the box as of RedHat 8. Beautiful install -- nary a hitch.

Works great under Mandrake 10, Had a little problem at first, I bought cheap ram and every time I used a lot of ram doing video or anything I wooould get a kernal panic. I got some Kingston and no problem.

Works great with Susie linux 9.3. Having trouble with 10.2 however... seems to hang on harddrive detection.