JAS 10.4.8 - installed fine, now need some help getting things working

[Dougal]

Hi,

 

I've installed JAS 10.4.8 on my PC.

 

Specs are as follows:

 

Intel P4 3.0

ASUS P4R800-VM

1Gb PC3200 memory

250Gb IDE HDD

IDE DVD-RW

 

While trying to start the installation I ran into the 'Waiting for root device' error, my DVD drive was at this point on my secondary IDE channel so I moved it to my primary IDE channel as a slave, and to my surprise this worked.

 

After installation I also encountered a problem trying to start the system, I removed the NVidia Geforce FX 5600 card I had installed and switched back to my onboard graphics and it booted fine.

 

Only problems are as follows:

 

- My network card doesn't work (tried both the onboard one, and an RTL8139C I had lying around). How can I get these working?

- I moved my DVD drive back to my secondary IDE channel. Now it doesn't seem to be detected in OSX. Why not? Do I need to install some special drivers for my chipset to make the secondary channel work? I'm pretty sure my board uses an ATI IXP chipset.

- How can I get my Nvidia graphics card to work? (Not so bothered about this for now).

- I have a C-Media CMI8738 soundcard. What are the chances of getting this to work in OSX? (As above).

 

I know I'm very close to having it fully working now, and I'm quite excited!

 

Cheers.