I have been trying to find a motherboard that will support an Intel Core i5 CPU. I also need to have the ability to remotely reboot the system if it should hang and have remote KVM functionality to access the BIOS and monitor the boot process. Lastly I will need two NICs (preferably on-board). After looking around it seems that the Super Micro C7SIM-Q will do what I need. It has an Intel Q57 chipset that supports both the Core i5 as well as Intel vPro/AMT that will allow me to remotely reboot the system and have remote KVM capabilities. Unfortunately the C7SIM-Q system board does not list Solaris as a compatible OS.
I will be using a Core i5 with on-board video. Video support will only be needed for installation ... no X-windows or on-going graphical display will be needed. No audio will be needed. If need be I can also use a PCI-E HBA for the hard drives. If I go with this board I would really like to try to get both on-board NICs to work ... at the very least I would need to get one of them working. Any suggestions or advice on using this board with Solaris or do you think I am just wasting my time even trying to make this work? Obviously I don't want to purchase the board if it will not work. I would think that since I would only minimally need drivers for the NICs and video. Do you think that opensolaris would support basic video w/ this board/cpu? Any ideas of if the NICs or storage might work? Or does anyone have any suggestions for anther board that would support my needs? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
