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Leah Rowe 633dbebbc6 simplify docs/install and merge docs/hardware
docs/hardware is redundant, because it now mostly
contains installation instructions, and docs/install
also contains hardware information. therefore, in
practise, they are both the same kind of information.

merge the two, and streamline everything. a lot of
redundant information has been removed.

docs/install/ has been re-structured in such a way
as to enable more chronological reading, to make it
easier for the average user to install Canoeboot.

This is part of a larger series of changes I'm working
on for the documentation. I'm massively auditing the
entire Canoeboot documentation.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
2024-11-02 04:52:22 +00:00

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title: Acer G43T-AM3 notes
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This is similar to Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L but uses an Intel NIC rather than
Realtek. Some problems with GNU+Linux on this NIC, on this board, with Canoeboot,
were observed; see (NOTE: Libreboot issue tracker, not Canoeboot):
<https://notabug.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/125>
That page (on notabug) has some notes about workarounds. It links to this:
<https://superuser.com/questions/1104537/how-to-repair-the-checksum-of-the-non-volatile-memory-nvm-of-intel-ethernet-co/1106641#1106641>
This page has some guidance on how to either correct the checksum (in GbE
config) or skip checksum validation in GNU+Linux, to get the onboard NIC working.
Although it's talking about different hardware, the steps should be the same.
TODO: factory BIOS on this board works fine with the onboard NIC. study what
that is doing