Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:19:52 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> To: Anthony Dematteo <adematteo@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a FreeBSD system. Message-ID: <43D7F988.8040809@wmptl.com> In-Reply-To: <5e236bd10601251212j4d330f21w411da28a2a5932fc@mail.gmail.com> References: <5e236bd10601251212j4d330f21w411da28a2a5932fc@mail.gmail.com>
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Anthony Dematteo wrote: > I am interested in building a new computer, with the intention of > running FreeBSD AMD/64. > > I am, however haveing trouble finding a mother board with support > listed in the hardware database. (Mostly for onboard audio) Is it > reasonable to belive that these audio devices will follow a normal > spec, and the FreeBSD will run them? Is there a good possiblity that > if they are not listed in the hardware.txt that they will not work at > all? What about onboard ethernet? > Thank you, > Anthony DeMatteo > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Most AC97 PCI audio devices built on-board with via or nvidia chipsets work - most that I have encountered anyhow. Not an intel fan over here, so not so sure about intel'd boards/chipsets... but I can easily reccomend almost any MSI, or Tyan mainboard with AMD64 or Opteron chips. On-Board ethernet varies greatly, and depends on the chipset... but again, most PCI-based cards/chipsets are supported - there are however exceptions to every rule, and some cards (notably the nvidia ethernet afaik - have issues). Personally (irony to my choice of CPU's) - I stick with nothing but Intel on the ethernet side, good old EtherExpress Pro 100/B PCI 10/100 cards on the desktop; rock-solid performer without any configuration woes, (least not that I've encountered). -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/
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