[ On Monday, June 4, Gary Corcoran wrote: ] > > I just built a new PC based on a Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2 board. Not exactly > the same, but it seems very similar except mine has built-in video. Since > it is intended for a personal file server, all I wanted was VGA.
similar enough--I'm mostly interested in reports about the onboard NIC and sound. > DVD-RW drive connected to PATA (JMicron controller) worked fine for install. > Later, a hard disk connected to the same PATA cable along with the DVD-RW > also worked. cool. > > SATA ports provided by ICH8 work fine in AHCI mode (only tried 1.5Gbps SATA > for now). again, cool. > I haven't tried the audio. from what I can gather it looks like -current is supporting this ICH8/RealTec combo fairly well. There appears to be diff's to apply to -STABLE with a "use at your own risk" type clause attached. > The Marvell 8056 ethernet is supported by the msk driver. It probes and > attaches > okay, but, long story short, it is unusable. Pinged okay, but just trying to > vi a small file over the network crashed the network connection. Another time > the lights on the network switch were constantly going off and on every few > seconds. It's just unusable in its current state. When I get time, I'll try > to provide a proper report to -current and get some help, but for now I had > to plug in an Intel card in a PCI slot. interesting ... yes, it'd be nice if this was supported, but the board has enough PCI slots to use "working" NICs ..... thanks for your report! -Jr -- John & Jennifer Reynolds johnjen at reynoldsnet.org www.reynoldsnet.org Structural/Physical Design - some group - Intel jreynold at sedona.ch.intel.com Running FreeBSD since 2.1.5-RELEASE. KT7JCR FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! "Unix is user friendly, it's just particular about the friends it chooses." _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
