From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 22:19:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA9D16A420 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:19:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.net (fw1.wmptl.com [216.8.159.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A75F43D48 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:19:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0PMJ6ct068766; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:19:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <43D7F988.8040809@wmptl.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:19:52 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Dematteo , questions@freebsd.org References: <5e236bd10601251212j4d330f21w411da28a2a5932fc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5e236bd10601251212j4d330f21w411da28a2a5932fc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.111 () RATWR10_MESSID X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Cc: Subject: Re: Building a FreeBSD system. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:19:11 -0000 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/