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