I really wanted to install OpenBSD so, this morning I went back to the shop and the kind guy accepted to replace the bugged motherboard with a different one for a reasonable extra. This one is an overkill for my needs (it has a 1.8Ghz 64bit atom CPU!!!), but good news: I've finally managed to install OpenBSD.
It's amazing to see how everything fit in a bit more than 200Mb! # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 1007M 42.3M 914M 4% / /dev/sd0d 1007M 6.0K 957M 0% /tmp /dev/sd0e 7.9G 164M 7.3G 2% /usr /dev/sd0f 7.9G 2.6M 7.5G 0% /var Now, back to the topic, I kindly have two questions, to avoid mistakes of the past: 1. The CPU is and Intel Atom D425. The OpenBSD manual says that "Some Intel processors lack support for important PAE NX bit. But I couldn't find a list of them. Is there a way for me to check if this one supports W^X on amd64? 2. Unfortunately this board has only 1 network card, but I need at least 3. Having only 1 PCI-E slot available for expansion, I am forced to buy a many-in-one network card. Because of budget issues, I have narrowed my choice to: - Intel Pro 1000 PT dual - Intel Pro 1000 VT quad The PT variant is listed in the (em) module documentation, but with no explicit reference to the dual version. The VT is not listed at all, but also it is not explicitly excluded. Does anyone had some good or bad experiences with those cards and OpenBSD? Thank you again Gabriele GPG Key Fingerprint: DAD1 E3E3 C3E9 36FB C570 F405 9B5F 7108 A1D0 2FFF
