nVidia motherboards
I thought I saw even some partial support for nVidia motherboards.. but can't find it again. I can't get even get the kernel to load. it's an Atom 32-bit board and would like to find that reference again. If you can help me look I'd love the help. --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
mbmon type program that works with SuperMicro motherboards?
I'm looking for a hardware monitor that will work with newer supermicro boards (mbmon / xmbmon doesn't)- any suggestions (I'm running RELENG_7) John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboards
On 4/23/06, Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Pantyukhin writes: Supermicro are also very good, but IMO they come second after Tyan. Coming late, ok way late :-), into the thread, but someone was mentioning that Supermicro motherboards had issues with Opterons. Anyone has experienced/read/heard about this? Well, I've heard that Google builds their newest servers almost exclusively on Opteron/Supermicro. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboards
Andrew Pantyukhin writes: Well, I've heard that Google builds their newest servers almost exclusively on Opteron/Supermicro. Any public reference to that? What was the source? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboards
On Apr 23, 2006, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 4/23/06, Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Pantyukhin writes: Supermicro are also very good, but IMO they come second after Tyan. Coming late, ok way late :-), into the thread, but someone was mentioning that Supermicro motherboards had issues with Opterons. Anyone has experienced/read/heard about this? Well, I've heard that Google builds their newest servers almost exclusively on Opteron/Supermicro. Google also back in the day took a bunch of bad donated RAM chips and put them to use using a special parity checking algorithm. The point is that Google doesn't always buy the absolute best hardware--they like many businesses put cost first. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboards
On 4/23/06, Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Pantyukhin writes: Well, I've heard that Google builds their newest servers almost exclusively on Opteron/Supermicro. Any public reference to that? What was the source? http://www.theregister.com/2006/03/11/supermicro_super_amd/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboards
Andrew Pantyukhin writes: Supermicro are also very good, but IMO they come second after Tyan. Coming late, ok way late :-), into the thread, but someone was mentioning that Supermicro motherboards had issues with Opterons. Anyone has experienced/read/heard about this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Motherboards
I have a number of servers that are reaching end of life. They are over 7 years old and I can no longer find IDE drives that work with the slower controllers they have. These are all towers and use ASUS motherboards. Those were quite cheap at the time and the boards have worked very well over the years. However, I am now hearing rumers that ASUS motherboards are no longer the best quality and probably should be avoided. Don't need much on the machines, but do have to have 2 NICs and a SCSI controller on each. What are good, rock solid, motherboards with FreeBSD 6.0? I can't speak for FBSD 6 best motherboard, however, regarding ASUS their quality is not as good as it used to be. I deal with number of computer suppliers and we're beginning to see more common ASUS motherboard problems. In the entry level market if you're going to use Intel CPU maybe it is best to stick with Intel boards (they are not flexible, but quality wise pretty good). If in AMD, I see NForce chipsets most popular. Tamouh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboards
Tyan are as rock-solid as it gets. Supermicro are also very good, but IMO they come second after Tyan. If you're looking for cheap mobo's, Gigabyte is a nice choice. Asus seems to be fine too, but my personal experience says against them (very loudly in fact). Abit was great a few years ago (I still have BE6-II with 200-300 days of uptime), but they have their issues now. So stick with Tyan if you want stability and stick with Gigabyte if you don't have enough money. My $.02 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboards
I have to recommend MSI. I haven't run BSD on one yet but they have always given me great performance and reliability over time. They're not the cheapest, but I'd still rather have a low-end MSI board then the most expensive Abit or PC Chips board Doug Hardie wrote: I have a number of servers that are reaching end of life. They are over 7 years old and I can no longer find IDE drives that work with the slower controllers they have. These are all towers and use ASUS motherboards. Those were quite cheap at the time and the boards have worked very well over the years. However, I am now hearing rumers that ASUS motherboards are no longer the best quality and probably should be avoided. Don't need much on the machines, but do have to have 2 NICs and a SCSI controller on each. What are good, rock solid, motherboards with FreeBSD 6.0? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboards
Doug Hardie wrote: I have a number of servers that are reaching end of life. They are over 7 years old and I can no longer find IDE drives that work with the slower controllers they have. These are all towers and use ASUS motherboards. Those were quite cheap at the time and the boards have worked very well over the years. However, I am now hearing rumers that ASUS motherboards are no longer the best quality and probably should be avoided. Don't need much on the machines, but do have to have 2 NICs and a SCSI controller on each. What are good, rock solid, motherboards with FreeBSD 6.0? John Cruz wrote: I have to recommend MSI. I haven't run BSD on one yet but they have always given me great performance and reliability over time. They're not the cheapest, but I'd still rather have a low-end MSI board then the most expensive Abit or PC Chips board Interesting. I've not used a great many MSI boards, that's Micro-Star International, but I'm sitting on one ATM. It feels cheap, but it runs quite well enough, considering it's FAMP devel/app server, LAN gateway/DNS, FTP server, and my desktop. I've pretty much given up on SOYO for reasons I can't even really remember ... I *think* it had to do with their phone support and return policy; I've several dead older SOYO boards in some drawer around here, a couple of which were DOA at the time, IIRC. OP: 2 NICS no issue here on older MSI board; also, this is the third motherboard thread this month (not complaining, but you can find more advice in the archives, perhaps.) Kevin Kinsey -- The days are all empty and the nights are unreal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboards
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 07:49, John Cruz wrote: I have to recommend MSI. I haven't run BSD on one yet but they have always given me great performance and reliability over time. They're not the cheapest, but I'd still rather have a low-end MSI board then the most expensive Abit or PC Chips board Doug Hardie wrote: I have a number of servers that are reaching end of life. They are over 7 years old and I can no longer find IDE drives that work with the slower controllers they have. These are all towers and use ASUS motherboards. Those were quite cheap at the time and the boards have worked very well over the years. However, I am now hearing rumers that ASUS motherboards are no longer the best quality and probably should be avoided. Don't need much on the machines, but do have to have 2 NICs and a SCSI controller on each. What are good, rock solid, motherboards with FreeBSD 6.0? I also like MSI. Several weeks ago I build a new economy server-desktop for one of my clients. I started out with an Asus K-8 series and it was so bad I ended up returning the board. I went with a MSI K-8T Neo and have had zero problems with it. The server is rock solid and everything works as advertised with no system tweaks necessary to set it up. I originally set it up for AMD64 but went back to I-386 because of lack of desktop support. I would recommend them highly for low-end servers. It's happily running 6-STABLE. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org --- pgpje4J3BNYbP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Motherboards Flaky Caps (was: 4.11 Server Locks Up)
At 04:23 PM 3/28/2006, Mark Cullen wrote: Upon further inspection of the motherboard, just before looking to buy a new one, I noticed bulging / leaking capacitors around the CPU socket. It looked like *all* of the most important caps were knackered. I am suprised it managed to turn on and stay up (for a while) at all. Yup, agreed. Caps are really the only components that go bad just from age. And on Intel Pentium 2 up mobo's, as well as AMD stuff = Athlon, they're heavily stressed and often marginal quality from the start. On any mobo's that support different CPU voltages, you'll see a bunch of caps, coils, etc usually adjacent to the CPU socket. It's a DC-DC power converter to generate all the required voltages. Lots of folks are also running later models CPUs that draw more power than the board was designed to work with, stressing they further. Thanks for the BadCaps.net tip -- I see *lots* of kits for ABIT [crap] -- why am I not surprised? -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Motherboards
I have a number of servers that are reaching end of life. They are over 7 years old and I can no longer find IDE drives that work with the slower controllers they have. These are all towers and use ASUS motherboards. Those were quite cheap at the time and the boards have worked very well over the years. However, I am now hearing rumers that ASUS motherboards are no longer the best quality and probably should be avoided. Don't need much on the machines, but do have to have 2 NICs and a SCSI controller on each. What are good, rock solid, motherboards with FreeBSD 6.0? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Motherboards FreeBSD [used to be RE: Disappointed with version 6.0]
-Original Message- From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:53 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions Subject: Motherboards FreeBSD [used to be RE: Disappointed with version 6.0] --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard is the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was listed as compatible at the FreeBSD/amd64 Project: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html Peter, That's really a poor choice as a server board. You get right to the point don't you? :| I try, I don't know if you have a particular favorite of ASUS, but if your selecting a motherboard to build a server around from ASUS's product line you have to dig a bit. I don't mind digging a bit; I actually lean towards quality. And I'm not partial towards any one maker either. My main issue is in identifying boards that will have their components recognized by FreeBSD. Is there a secret resource I haven't found? Please oblige. It depends how far along the curve you want to be. Chipset manufacturers constantly change their products and new support is going into FreeBSD all the time, the problem is the newest boards probably won't be 100% supported. This is a separate issue from the reputation of the chipsets of course, SiS probably has the worst reputation, VIA is a bit better, Intel is better than that, etc. What you want to look for are chipsets that are built on older designs, for example the Intel ICH7 is a brushup of the ICH6 which is a brushup of the ICH5, etc. you get the idea. Thus it's really easy to add in support for it since the earlier variants are already supported. By contrast a brand new chipset line that has never seen FreeBSD before is going to take a lot longer to support. And of course, it's better to look for server quality hardware since more of that is going to be used for FreeBSD by the folks that are more advanced and will be supported faster. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Motherboards FreeBSD [used to be RE: Disappointed with version 6.0]
--- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard is the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was listed as compatible at the FreeBSD/amd64 Project: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html Peter, That's really a poor choice as a server board. You get right to the point don't you? :| I don't know if you have a particular favorite of ASUS, but if your selecting a motherboard to build a server around from ASUS's product line you have to dig a bit. I don't mind digging a bit; I actually lean towards quality. And I'm not partial towards any one maker either. My main issue is in identifying boards that will have their components recognized by FreeBSD. Is there a secret resource I haven't found? Please oblige. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboards FreeBSD [used to be RE: Disappointed with version 6.0]
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:53:00 -0500 (EST) Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a secret resource I haven't found? [EMAIL PROTECTED] + its archives FWIW, we have a TYAN dual opteron box, 4 x SATA drives, 1 RU, works a treat. I think it's the something-24 model. search the archives for more info. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATA problems on Supermicro X6DHE motherboards
Hello, I have a a machine with a Supermicro X6DHE-XG2 motherboard and one with a X6DHE-G2 motherboard. When I try to install FreeBSD 5.4 on these machines I get FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out messages while the installer is booting. The installer does manage to start, but when you go to the fdisk screen it says there are no disks to install to. The installation can be done in safe mode however. When the installation is finished these machines hang during startup unless booted in safe mode. I have seen instructions on the web for creating a safe mode kernel that can boot without problems, but since these these machines will be used for testing so it is important to have the normal kernel. I have also tried FreeBSD 6.0, with the same problems. Here are some screen captures of the messages: Error messages on the machines while booting the installer: X6DHE-G2 http://www.baud-bandit.com/x6dhe-g2-install.png X6DHE-XG2 http://www.baud-bandit.com/x6dhe-xg2-install.png Error messages on the machines while booting the installation: X6DHE-G2 http://www.baud-bandit.com/x6dhe-g2-boot.png X6DHE-XG2 http://www.baud-bandit.com/x6dhe-xg2-boot-page1.png http://www.baud-bandit.com/x6dhe-xg2-boot-page2.png Another similar case i've seen: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2005-February/011693.html Any advice or help appreciated. Simon Crosby ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solution for ATAPI_TIMEOUT on FreeBSD 5.3 on some SuperMicro motherboards
Hi, I know a few people have had ATAPI_TIMEOUT errors when installing 5.3-RELEASE on SuperMicro motherboards. I got it successfully installed on a SuperMicro X6DHE-X8 which has dual Broadcom 5721 which are not supported in 5.3-RELEASE. I wrote up the solution here: http://www.mostlygeek.com/node/22 Hope this helps anybody facing ATAPI_TIMEOUT problems. Ben. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How?
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I just picked up a PM25 for our colo facility, so that I can do remote admin on the FreeBSD boxes ... our two Tyan servers are a piece of cake, as they have DB9 Serial, like I'd expect ... but the Intel motherboards have External RJ45 serial, internal serial header on all of there boards, from what I can tell ... but what I can't figure out is how to make use of them ... Not sure where the previous post was CC'd to per se, but take a look here: http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/portmaster25/ A couple of other comments: - Some Intel motherboards include BIOS revisions that have errors regarding the configuration, or at least, are incomprehensible. We had to futz for quite a long time to get it working for the netperf cluster. Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced the instructions -- I can only advise trying counter-intuitive things. I think the problem was that the BIOS was referring to 1/2 and meant A/B, or said A/B and meant 1/2. - On some motherboards, the RTS/CTS seems to flip too frequently for the Portmaster 25, which detects this as a wiring problem. I had to turn off flow control on the port, set hangup off. Otherwise, I saw the serial console disconnect a few seconds whenever the test started moving fast. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research The servers are remote, so adding a 9pin serial port onto the 'internal header' is a bit difficult, so am wondering about using the 'external RJ45'. The PM25 cables end in an RJ45 jack, and we had to purchase adapters to go from RJ45-9pin ... can those RJ45 adapters be used to plug into the RJ45 serial directly? Also, from what I've been able to read so far, the RJ45 == Serial B, not Serial A ... so, I'd need to change how FreeBSD works as far as serial console is concerned, to look at Serial B, no? Help? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How?
Oh, most cool .. so I wouldn't even be using FreeBSDs serial console, but doing it at the hardware level? By 'watching POST', would this also give me remot access to the BIOS itself? In theory, yes and yes, most definatly! -Sam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How?
*sigh* I was wrong. This setup will get you to the Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. but getting into the BIOS over the serial connection will most definatly work. Sorry about that. -Sam - Original Message - From: Samuel Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:30 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How? Oh, most cool .. so I wouldn't even be using FreeBSDs serial console, but doing it at the hardware level? By 'watching POST', would this also give me remot access to the BIOS itself? In theory, yes and yes, most definatly! -Sam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How?
Okay - I'm terribly sorry for replying to myself *again* but to answer your first question of redirection kernel messages to COMB (or 2 or whatever), the docs say: 20.6.5.2 Using Serial Port Other Than sio0 for the Console Using a port other than sio0 as the console requires some recompiling. If you want to use another serial port for whatever reasons, recompile the boot blocks, the boot loader and the kernel as follows. 1.. Get the kernel source. (See Chapter 19) 2.. Edit /etc/make.conf and set BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT to the address of the port you want to use (0x3F8, 0x2F8, 0x3E8 or 0x2E8). Only sio0 through sio3 (COM1 through COM4) can be used; multiport serial cards will not work. No interrupt setting is needed. 3.. Create a custom kernel configuration file and add appropriate flags for the serial port you want to use. For example, if you want to make sio1 (COM2) the console: device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x10 irq 3 or device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x30 irq 3 The console flags for the other serial ports should not be set. 4.. Recompile and install the boot blocks and the boot loader: # cd /sys/boot # make clean # make # make install 5.. Rebuild and install the kernel. 6.. Write the boot blocks to the boot disk with disklabel(8) and boot from the new kernel. So, set that to COMB and setup all the BIOS stuff to happen on COMB (note that the COMB and COM2 are the same thing - Intel had to confuse things just a tad more than they already are...) and you should be good to go! -Sam - Original Message - From: Samuel Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Samuel Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:55 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How? *sigh* I was wrong. This setup will get you to the Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. but getting into the BIOS over the serial connection will most definatly work. Sorry about that. -Sam - Original Message - From: Samuel Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:30 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How? Oh, most cool .. so I wouldn't even be using FreeBSDs serial console, but doing it at the hardware level? By 'watching POST', would this also give me remot access to the BIOS itself? In theory, yes and yes, most definatly! -Sam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How?
I just picked up a PM25 for our colo facility, so that I can do remote admin on the FreeBSD boxes ... our two Tyan servers are a piece of cake, as they have DB9 Serial, like I'd expect ... but the Intel motherboards have External RJ45 serial, internal serial header on all of there boards, from what I can tell ... but what I can't figure out is how to make use of them ... The servers are remote, so adding a 9pin serial port onto the 'internal header' is a bit difficult, so am wondering about using the 'external RJ45'. The PM25 cables end in an RJ45 jack, and we had to purchase adapters to go from RJ45-9pin ... can those RJ45 adapters be used to plug into the RJ45 serial directly? Also, from what I've been able to read so far, the RJ45 == Serial B, not Serial A ... so, I'd need to change how FreeBSD works as far as serial console is concerned, to look at Serial B, no? Help? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How?
The RJ-45 should be pinned exactly like the cisco RJ-45's. If you can get a console to a cisco router off of one of your PM ports, you should be able to plug it into the serial B be header on the server and be able to talk to it. The second problem of management (watching POST and kernel messages) should be easily remedied by telling the machine to redirect POST messages to Serial B as well as do ACPI re-direction to Serial B (done in the BIOS). This should get you all the way through kernel messages, then if you want to allow logins on Serial B, you should just be able to 'turn on' ttyd1 in /etc/ttys. -Sam - Original Message - From: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 1:03 PM Subject: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How? I just picked up a PM25 for our colo facility, so that I can do remote admin on the FreeBSD boxes ... our two Tyan servers are a piece of cake, as they have DB9 Serial, like I'd expect ... but the Intel motherboards have External RJ45 serial, internal serial header on all of there boards, from what I can tell ... but what I can't figure out is how to make use of them ... The servers are remote, so adding a 9pin serial port onto the 'internal header' is a bit difficult, so am wondering about using the 'external RJ45'. The PM25 cables end in an RJ45 jack, and we had to purchase adapters to go from RJ45-9pin ... can those RJ45 adapters be used to plug into the RJ45 serial directly? Also, from what I've been able to read so far, the RJ45 == Serial B, not Serial A ... so, I'd need to change how FreeBSD works as far as serial console is concerned, to look at Serial B, no? Help? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How?
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Samuel Clements wrote: The RJ-45 should be pinned exactly like the cisco RJ-45's. If you can get a console to a cisco router off of one of your PM ports, you should be able to plug it into the serial B be header on the server and be able to talk to it. The second problem of management (watching POST and kernel messages) should be easily remedied by telling the machine to redirect POST messages to Serial B as well as do ACPI re-direction to Serial B (done in the BIOS). This should get you all the way through kernel messages, then if you want to allow logins on Serial B, you should just be able to 'turn on' ttyd1 in /etc/ttys. Oh, most cool .. so I wouldn't even be using FreeBSDs serial console, but doing it at the hardware level? By 'watching POST', would this also give me remot access to the BIOS itself? -Sam - Original Message - From: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 1:03 PM Subject: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How? I just picked up a PM25 for our colo facility, so that I can do remote admin on the FreeBSD boxes ... our two Tyan servers are a piece of cake, as they have DB9 Serial, like I'd expect ... but the Intel motherboards have External RJ45 serial, internal serial header on all of there boards, from what I can tell ... but what I can't figure out is how to make use of them ... The servers are remote, so adding a 9pin serial port onto the 'internal header' is a bit difficult, so am wondering about using the 'external RJ45'. The PM25 cables end in an RJ45 jack, and we had to purchase adapters to go from RJ45-9pin ... can those RJ45 adapters be used to plug into the RJ45 serial directly? Also, from what I've been able to read so far, the RJ45 == Serial B, not Serial A ... so, I'd need to change how FreeBSD works as far as serial console is concerned, to look at Serial B, no? Help? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Supported motherboards? (Abit IS7?)
I'm building myself a new desktop, and I'm wondering wether this motherboard will work with FreeBSD 5.x? http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/se/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=IS7fMTYPE=Socket%20478pPRODINFO=Specifications I'm wondering if the onboard sound will work with FreeBSD. It says it is AC97(and a quick google shows that AC97 appears to work with FreeBSD), but you never know.. If anyone have used this motherboard, or could recommend me one that works with a P4 2.8 GHz processor, please reply! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supported motherboards? (Abit IS7?)
Yeh that board works with FreeBSD 5.2.1-R-p9. However you need to reflash the latest BIOS as the ACPI seems to be broken and yes the sound DOES work. You need a rebuild of the kernel though. Regards S. On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:57:29 +0200, Erik Johnsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building myself a new desktop, and I'm wondering wether this motherboard will work with FreeBSD 5.x? http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/se/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=IS7fMTYPE=Socket%20478pPRODINFO=Specifications I'm wondering if the onboard sound will work with FreeBSD. It says it is AC97(and a quick google shows that AC97 appears to work with FreeBSD), but you never know.. If anyone have used this motherboard, or could recommend me one that works with a P4 2.8 GHz processor, please reply! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supported motherboards? (Abit IS7?)
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:04:27 +0200, Erik Johnsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:32:52AM +0530, Subhro wrote: Yeh that board works with FreeBSD 5.2.1-R-p9. However you need to reflash the latest BIOS as the ACPI seems to be broken and yes the sound DOES work. You need a rebuild of the kernel though. Thank you for the quick reply! A rebuild of the kernel is not a problem(though the module can't be loaded as a module?). I don't think so. I always include the sound statically in the kernel. Maybe somone else will be able to help. On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:57:29 +0200, Erik Johnsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building myself a new desktop, and I'm wondering wether this motherboard will work with FreeBSD 5.x? http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/se/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=IS7fMTYPE=Socket%20478pPRODINFO=Specifications I'm wondering if the onboard sound will work with FreeBSD. It says it is AC97(and a quick google shows that AC97 appears to work with FreeBSD), but you never know.. If anyone have used this motherboard, or could recommend me one that works with a P4 2.8 GHz processor, please reply! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards S. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supported motherboards? (Abit IS7?)
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:08:24 +0200, Erik Johnsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:36:52AM +0530, Subhro wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:04:27 +0200, Erik Johnsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:32:52AM +0530, Subhro wrote: Yeh that board works with FreeBSD 5.2.1-R-p9. However you need to reflash the latest BIOS as the ACPI seems to be broken and yes the sound DOES work. You need a rebuild of the kernel though. Thank you for the quick reply! A rebuild of the kernel is not a problem(though the module can't be loaded as a module?). I don't think so. I always include the sound statically in the kernel. Maybe somone else will be able to help. Perhaps you know what option I have to add to the kernel configuration file? device snd for 4.* and upto 5.2.1 Regards S. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supported motherboards? (Abit IS7?)
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 02:43:04 +0530, Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:08:24 +0200, Erik Johnsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:36:52AM +0530, Subhro wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:04:27 +0200, Erik Johnsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:32:52AM +0530, Subhro wrote: Yeh that board works with FreeBSD 5.2.1-R-p9. However you need to reflash the latest BIOS as the ACPI seems to be broken and yes the sound DOES work. You need a rebuild of the kernel though. Thank you for the quick reply! A rebuild of the kernel is not a problem(though the module can't be loaded as a module?). I don't think so. I always include the sound statically in the kernel. Maybe somone else will be able to help. Perhaps you know what option I have to add to the kernel configuration file? device snd for 4.* and upto 5.2.1 Oops a correction. for AC97 its device pcm and not snd as I said earlier Sorry for the error Regards S. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recommended Motherboards for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x
Patrick Hurrelmann writes: personally I'm a ASUS-User. Here too. Started with a P2-B, now running on a P5-S533. May not be the highest performance, but a rock for stability. Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Motherboards for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x
Forrest Aldrich wrote: Hi there, I'm interested in what motherboards most recommend now for higher performance FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x systems. I've a SOYO Dragon Platinum, with SATA and have had several problems, such that I will replace it with something better -- perhaps ASUS? Feedback appreciated. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, personally I'm a ASUS-User. All boards i've ever used were asus except my Siemens Primergy 470 nad my Dell Latitude D600. I ran FreeBSD successfully on this boards: Asus A7M266-D, Dual-Athlon XP 1800+ (running CURRENT, ACPI w/o problems) Asus CUV4X-D, Dual-PIII 800 (ran 4.9, if i remember correctly) Asus P5A-B, K6-2 350 (running 5.2.1 p7, ACPI w/o problems) Asus A7V266-E, Athlon XP 1800+ (running CURRENT, ACPI w/o problems) and several asus borads, but never tested on freebsd, as i'm new to *NIX. asus are always high-quality boards. you'll notice that in quality of bios for example. all asus boards supporting ACPI, work flawless. Patrick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Motherboards for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x
I have only used FreeBSD on one Asus board, the original A7A266. I've recently begun the undertaking of putting 5.2.1 on it. I had to disable the Use PNP OS function in the BIOS to make it work reliably - in other words, I'm making the BIOS assign device resources. The same is true for 4.8 and 4.9. The board does support ACPI satisfactorily, though. -- Alan Gerber Replied message follows Hi, personally I'm a ASUS-User. All boards i've ever used were asus except my Siemens Primergy 470 nad my Dell Latitude D600. I ran FreeBSD successfully on this boards: Asus A7M266-D, Dual-Athlon XP 1800+ (running CURRENT, ACPI w/o problems) Asus CUV4X-D, Dual-PIII 800 (ran 4.9, if i remember correctly) Asus P5A-B, K6-2 350 (running 5.2.1 p7, ACPI w/o problems) Asus A7V266-E, Athlon XP 1800+ (running CURRENT, ACPI w/o problems) and several asus borads, but never tested on freebsd, as i'm new to *NIX. asus are always high-quality boards. you'll notice that in quality of bios for example. all asus boards supporting ACPI, work flawless. Patrick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recommended Motherboards for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x
Hi there, I'm interested in what motherboards most recommend now for higher performance FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x systems. I've a SOYO Dragon Platinum, with SATA and have had several problems, such that I will replace it with something better -- perhaps ASUS? Feedback appreciated. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Motherboards for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x
Forrest Aldrich wrote: Hi there, I'm interested in what motherboards most recommend now for higher performance FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x systems. I've a SOYO Dragon Platinum, with SATA and have had several problems, such that I will replace it with something better -- perhaps ASUS? Someone has a survey on the web of motherboards and their features vis-à-vis FreeBSD. Google freebsd motherboard survey. -- Regards, Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD support for new motherboards
During the last two weeks there has been some discussion in freebsd-questions and freebsd-stable about the prospects of FreeBSD support for some motherboard devices associated with the Intel 865PE/875P and ICH5/ICH5R support chips now showing up in recent motherboard designs. I just dropped something relevant into the freebsd-stable mailing list. The subject is, FreeBSD STABLE support for new motherboards. Dan Strick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-10 15:43:36 -0700: I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well with FreeBSD? Someone didn't have the same troubles with soltek SL-75DRV2 http://www1.soltek.com.tw/English/product/75drv2.htm looks like the solteks are fine. you might want to take DRV4 or DRV5. I've bought asus card because my hp pavillion had a asus card with a via chipset. I read after that they don't document their boards so that open source developers can support all the features easily. Whats a more open motherboard brand? Are Via chipsets the best supported? The card I'm having trouble with has a acer chipset. i also wanted to buy asus when i was going for a new box, but during the research i found out that people were having trouble getting X up with some of the asus boards. X was essential since i was upgrading my desktop, so i went with abit KR7A (the no-raid version, VIA KT266A chipset), and i'm really happy with it. btw, there was a Athlon XP mobo test in the august issue of the czech Chip magazine, and they got the best numbers from a DFI AD76 RAID mobo. VIA KT333 chipset, Promise 20276, onboard sound (Realtek RTL8100). if i was buying a new mobo i would go for this one. (i have no experience with DFI mobos. maybe someone could chime in?) -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 10:26AM up 23 days, 17:41, 21 users, load averages: 0.25, 0.22, 0.16 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, W. D. wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:31:16 -0500 From: W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD At 17:43 10/10/2002, Corey Holcomb-Hockin, wrote: I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well with FreeBSD? Does anyone know what motherboards will work with an AMD chip(s) in a 1U rack mount server case? Start Here to Find It Fast!© - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ Have you found a HowTo on rolling your own rackmount? I'd love to see it. I've been considering one of these for my house: http://eracks.com/eRacks/products/config?sku=PREMIUM JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Corey Holcomb-Hockin wrote: I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well with FreeBSD? Someone didn't have the same troubles with soltek SL-75DRV2 http://www1.soltek.com.tw/English/product/75drv2.htm I've bought asus card because my hp pavillion had a asus card with a via chipset. I read after that they don't document their boards so that open source developers can support all the features easily. Whats a more open motherboard brand? Are Via chipsets the best supported? The card I'm having trouble with has a acer chipset. The A-Open AK77Pro runs very nicel with 4.6.2. I'm using vinum in Raid 1 on it and it's greased lightning. A friend who owns an ISP is using it all over his plant also. -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD
At 08:18 10/11/2002, John Bleichert, wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, W. D. wrote: Does anyone know what motherboards will work with an AMD chip(s) in a 1U rack mount server case? Have you found a HowTo on rolling your own rackmount? I'd love to see it. I've been considering one of these for my house: http://eracks.com/eRacks/products/config?sku=PREMIUM Nice! Here are some monsters that would be nice to have if they worked with FreeBSD: http://www.ApPro.com/1124.html http://www.DualAthlonServers.com/103multiview/ Start Here to Find It Fast!© - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: Jim Durham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Corey Holcomb-Hockin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:04:33 + (GMT) Subject: Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Corey Holcomb-Hockin wrote: I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well with FreeBSD? Someone didn't have the same troubles with soltek SL-75DRV2 http://www1.soltek.com.tw/English/product/75drv2.htm I've bought asus card because my hp pavillion had a asus card with a via chipset. I read after that they don't document their boards so that open source developers can support all the features easily. Whats a more open motherboard brand? Are Via chipsets the best supported? The card I'm having trouble with has a acer chipset. The A-Open AK77Pro runs very nicel with 4.6.2. I'm using vinum in Raid 1 on it and it's greased lightning. A friend who owns an ISP is using it all over his plant also. -Jim ** I noticed someone else in this thread replying that his A7A-133 worked OK. I have an ASUS A7V333 that works very nicely. Have you considered that it may just be XFree or video card problems and not the motherboard? Specifically, what problems are you having? Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Corey Holcomb-Hockin wrote: I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well with FreeBSD? I just upgraded my FreeBSD system from an Abit KT7A-Raid to a MSI K7T266 Pro 2A board with an Athlon XP 1800+ (combo was $99 at Fry's a couple of weeks ago). This board will handle up to the 2600+ with the newer BIOS if I remember correctly. Smoothest upgrade I've ever done. No glitches, no bridge workarounds, no devices not found, nothing. Came up running the first time and is still there. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:41:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Corey Holcomb-Hockin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well with FreeBSD? If your motherboard isn't working, then most likely there is some bios configuration that could be tweaked to fix the problem. That said I'm using an abit kx7-333 with an athlon xp 2000+ and have absolutely no problems at all. Someone didn't have the same troubles with soltek SL-75DRV2 http://www1.soltek.com.tw/English/product/75drv2.htm I've bought asus card because my hp pavillion had a asus card with a via chipset. I read after that they don't document their boards so that open source developers can support all the features easily. Whats a more open motherboard brand? Are Via chipsets the best supported? The card I'm having trouble with has a acer chipset. I don't know how well FreeBSD supports the acer chipsets, but I've had no trouble with my via-based chipset. Ken Agreed - my VIA chipset works fine. The board is an A7V-133: johnnyb:~ dmesg | grep -i via pcib2: VIA 8363 (Apollo KT133) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 isab0: VIA 82C686 PCI-ISA bridge at device 4.0 on pci0 atapci0: VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 4.1 on pci0 uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xd000-0xd01f irq 5 at device 4.3 on pci0 usb0: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 I haven't fiddled with the onboard RAID at all. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD
At 17:43 10/10/2002, Corey Holcomb-Hockin, wrote: I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well with FreeBSD? Does anyone know what motherboards will work with an AMD chip(s) in a 1U rack mount server case? Start Here to Find It Fast!© - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD
I'll give a good nod to my current board, a Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus! VIA KT266A 100/133 FSB. It has onboard sound and LAN, but both are well supported, and can be put aside with a simple change under BIOS. It was a really good option for me, initially, because when I built this box, I was somewhat low on cash. The onboard stuff saved me a few $$$ early on, though i've since upgraded the sound card to a Soundblaster Live 5.1. It also has onboard RAID, and supports up to 3GB of PC2100 DDR-SDRAM. Very, very smooth little board, even with just 256MB. I haven't made use of the RAID yet, but from what I understand, it works just fine. Both the processor and mobo have come down quite a bit in price since I bought it, so you could probably get them cheaply from a place like newegg.com or directron.com...assuming you want something in the 1+ghz range. - erik On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:43:36 -0700 Corey Holcomb-Hockin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well with FreeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
