From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 10 23:25:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B72106566B for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:25:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@undermydesk.org) Received: from amazone.undermydesk.org (amazone.undermydesk.org [213.211.198.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D0758FC25 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amazone.undermydesk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9514D5D7A; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:24:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from amazone.undermydesk.org ([213.211.198.100]) by localhost (amazone.undermydesk.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id O20oVwdEK6bH; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:24:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.74] (p4FD5C52D.dip.t-dialin.net [79.213.197.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by amazone.undermydesk.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EAC685D69; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:24:22 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A80AC41.8050003@undermydesk.org> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:24:49 +0200 From: Frank Reppin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <4A78C0B5.8080808@undermydesk.org> <436c7eda0908050820g5a610a9dk6b1b1cf20afe2be8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <436c7eda0908050820g5a610a9dk6b1b1cf20afe2be8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jonas Lund Subject: Re: [if_re.c] INTEL mini/itx DE945GSEJT X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:25:11 -0000 Hi all and hi Jonas! Jonas Lund wrote: > If you've just purchased a new board i think you could try it out as > you install it. Apart from the mentioned things boards usually > contains the same chipsets as other boards so chances are it'll work. > And if not directly then under some compat mode (Altho could be with > reduced speed) > > And if realtek does provide source for their drivers i'd prolly not be > too worried. The shitties drivers i've used was some crap produced by > some random chineese chip-shop that had delay(10000) or something > alike it inside kernel-code (That's right.. it waited 10 seconds in > kernel for no apperant reason!) but the code was functional with this > removed. > > 2009/8/5 Frank Reppin : >> Hi all, >> >> just purchased the above mentioned board: >> >> http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GSEJT/D945GSEJT-overview.htm Thankyou so far... and thankyou to if_re.c maintainer(s)... the mainboard in question is indeed supported by FreeBSD' if_re.c in at least -CURRENT (I've performed an initial install using the latest [2009-06] current snapshot ISO and I've later [2009-08-10... late evening] upgraded to 8.2 beta. coretemp (4) seems to also work as intended as well as powerd without any flaws... at a first glance. Cheers, frank -- http://www.undermydesk.org