[TriLUG] where to find drivers - manufacturer does not support linux

[Ryan Leathers]

I am hoping for suggestions of where to find drivers for unsupported
hardware.  I am aware of the definition of the term "unsupported", but
if there is anything out there that might help I'd like to try and find
it.  My initial googling has not produced fruit.

In this particular case I am looking for AMD chipset drivers for a PC
motherboard.
Tyan Tiger S2466N-4M
UPC number 635872-006555

There are drivers available from Tyan for various Microsoft operating
systems.  These drivers claim to provide features such as bus mastering
and AGP 4x for Windows operating systems.

Attempts to install RH8 - RH9 using the graphical install stop at the
disk partitioning section with an error "unable to read partition..."
I will try to do a non-graphical install and use fdisk to partition -
maybe that will help.  Still, if there are drivers out there somewhere
that will work better with this motherboard's EIDE I want to try them.

Any suggestion appreciated,
Ryan