Asus P5W DH Deluxe

Booting from a live CD
Make sure you connect you cd-rom drive to the ICH7 connector(the blue one). If you prefer to use the JMicron connector (Bottom connector on the board) you'll run into problems. It is possible to use it, just follow the directions on the Asus P5B Deluxe page.

Untested
The Wifi module has not been tested but it should work since kernel version 2.6.23. The needed modules should be:
 * r8180 or r8187 for the module itself
 * ieee80211_crypt-rtl for WEP and WPA encryption
 * ieee80211_crypt_wep-rtl for WEP encryption
 * ieee80211_crypt_tkip-rtl for WPA TKIP encryption
 * ieee80211_crypt_ccmp-rtl for WPA CCMP encryption
 * ieee80211-rtl for the r8187 module

Kernel Configuration
The initial testing of the hardware was done using Kernel 2.6.21-rc4-mm1. However, as shown below, you should use at least the 2.6.25 version.

Hard drives
The Asus P5W DH has 3 separates hard drive controller :
 * 1) ICH7(IDE and SATA)
 * 2) JMicron 20360/20363(IDE and SATA)
 * 3) Silicon Image 4723 (Asus EZ-Backup)

ICH7
Support is really easy to configure :

JMicron 20360/20363
SATA support was not tested. Note that the "irqpoll" kernel boot option was necessary to fully handle the PATA drives. To use the PATA controller :

Silicon Image 4723
At this momment (2008-06-14) there are not administrator tools for linux to monitor the RAID state and no way to notify an alarm if one physical disk crashes. So while it works it's not suitable for production systems.

Networking
For the Marvell Yukon2 Gigabit network adapter, see the Sky2 guide.

Hardware Monitoring
The board uses a Winbond W83627EHF Super Chip

For kernels 2.6.31 and above the w83627ehf driver conflicts with ACPI. The asus_atk0110 driver should be used instead.

To prevent ACPI from stealing I/O ports, and then reuse the w83627ehf driver and restore the old behavior (which might be dangerous), add  to the kernel cmdline when booting.

Audio
The audio chipset is an Intel HD audio.

For convenience, it is recommended to build the Alsa driver as modules, as you won't need a reboot to make it work.

See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml for more information about the configuration.

Asus DH Remote
You should first follow the LIRC guide, to learn more about the infrared remote control configuration. However, the LIRC_DEVICES for this motherboard is "asusdh":

Here is an example of how to configure it:

Extra links

 * Official product page
 * Gentoo Forum Post dealing with ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe

lspci output
lspci

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