sgrover wrote: > Unless Broadcom has changed its stance recently, they are rather > un-cooperative with the open source communities. Which means drivers > for Broadcom devices are hacks and often lead to problems with Linux. > > On the otherhand, my own experience is with the Broadcom based NICs, and > Feisty configures itself for them fine I believe. > > Other than that, I'm afraid I can't offer anymore insight.
I've had good luck as long as the NICs are not Broadcom. Every single Tyan board I've ever used that has a Broadcom chip for the NIC exhibits random freezing and other unpleasantness as long as the NIC is operating. Add-in Intel NICs or even onboard Intel NICs don't seem to have that problem. Essentially, as long as the Broadcom NIC is not operating, the systems have been stable. All that said, from what I could gather after a quick scan of the specs on the specified board is that the NICs on that board are Intel chips which would not run into the problem I mentioned. > > Shawn > > Johnny Stork wrote: >> I am looking at a new server mb for a client, which will need at least >> one PCI-X slot for a 3ware SATA controller. Does anyone have any >> experience with the Tyan S3850G2nr ATX with the Broadcom HT1000 Chipset? >> I dont want to have to struggle with any drivers for the mb or video so >> was wondering if anyone knows if this board, chipset etc would work out >> of the box with a new CenOS install? >> >> http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=193 >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -- William Astle finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further information Geek Code V3.12: GCS/M/S d- s+:+ !a C++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ !E W++ !N w--- !D !M PS PE V-- Y+ PGP t+@ 5++ X !R tv+@ b+++@ !DI D? G e++ h+ y? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
