Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-20 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:35:47PM -0500, Greg Mars wrote: NetOpsCenter wrote: Greg Mars wrote: I'm buying parts for a computer and want to make sure that the core components are as freebsd friendly as possible. So far, I've decided on a core 2 quad q6600 and I'm choosing the motherboard

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-20 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Greg Mars wrote: I'm buying parts for a computer and want to make sure that the core components are as freebsd friendly as possible. So far, I've decided on a core 2 quad q6600 and I'm choosing the motherboard now. Me2 (unless I wait for a newer generation of CPUs).

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-20 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Bruce Evans wrote: I also want a cheap PCI/e NIC that works well with drivers back to FreeBSD-4 like my plain PCI bge and em NICs do. I doubt that any popular motherboard will have anything better than a cheap PCI/e NIC. Finding a modern main board of which the builtin NIC works with 4.X

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-20 Thread Robert Huff
Alphons \Fonz\ van Werven writes: I also want a cheap PCI/e NIC that works well with drivers back toFreeBSD-4 like my plain PCI bge and em NICs do. I doubt that any popular motherboard will have anything better than a cheap PCI/e NIC. Finding a modern main board of which the

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-20 Thread Gordon work
However it seems many of the popular motherboards have Realtek ALC888 as built-in audio and Realtek 8111B as built-in LAN. I read at: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/i386/article.html that the sound should work but I couldn't find any info on the LAN. Does anyone on

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-20 Thread Michel Talon
Bruce Evans said: I also want a cheap PCI/e NIC that works well with drivers back to FreeBSD-4 like my plain PCI bge and em NICs do. I doubt that any popular motherboard will have anything better than a cheap PCI/e NIC. I have recently upgraded an old machine with a good AGP video card to a

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-20 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Bruce Evans wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Greg Mars wrote: I'm buying parts for a computer and want to make sure that the core components are as freebsd friendly as possible. So far, I've decided on a core 2 quad q6600 and I'm choosing the motherboard now. Me2 (unless I wait for a newer

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-20 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:32:18AM -1000, NetOpsCenter wrote: Bernd Walter wrote: Realtek has two devices for Gbit PCI: the 8169 and the reduced 8110. They are both more or less the same - likely even the same chip inside, but the later has pins reduced. AFAIK the later can't have an

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-20 Thread Greg Mars
Gordon work wrote: The RealTek LAN works fine on my box. Audio from Realtek ALC883 also works, but I would not know about ALC888. tkgeomap502$ uname -a FreeBSD localhost 7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 #5: Fri Dec 21 22:03:40 CST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM amd64

Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-19 Thread Greg Mars
I'm buying parts for a computer and want to make sure that the core components are as freebsd friendly as possible. So far, I've decided on a core 2 quad q6600 and I'm choosing the motherboard now. However it seems many of the popular motherboards have Realtek ALC888 as built-in audio and

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-19 Thread NetOpsCenter
Greg Mars wrote: I'm buying parts for a computer and want to make sure that the core components are as freebsd friendly as possible. So far, I've decided on a core 2 quad q6600 and I'm choosing the motherboard now. However it seems many of the popular motherboards have Realtek ALC888 as

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-19 Thread Greg Mars
NetOpsCenter wrote: Greg Mars wrote: I'm buying parts for a computer and want to make sure that the core components are as freebsd friendly as possible. So far, I've decided on a core 2 quad q6600 and I'm choosing the motherboard now. However it seems many of the popular motherboards have