Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:18:22 +0200 From: "Ernst W. Winter" <ewinter@ewinter.org> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: workstation mobo Message-ID: <20050815201822.GB1156@lobo.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <200508152004.j7FK45LW027551@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <20050815191318.GA62590@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <200508152004.j7FK45LW027551@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > Juergen Lock writes: > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:16:52PM +1000, ? ? wrote: > > > On 8/13/05, I wrote: > > >[...] > > > > > > I just got a new box with an Asus A8V Deluxe board (VIA K8T800 Pro, > > > > Socket 939), and so far everything seems to be working. The only > > > > unusual thing i had to do for FreeBSD (5.4-R) was adding a patch > > > > to the sk nic driver (see other thread.) > > > > > > > > > > Update on ASUS A8V Deluxe for archives > > > > > > I installed 5.4-RELEASE about April (2005) and track 5-Stable on that > > > hardware straight from CVS - never had a prob with sk0 yet, it's > > > worked since day one with no boot time errors. > > > > Yeah I was surprised too that my network didnt work out-of-the-box, > > as i had read of other ppl having no problems at all with this board. > > Apparently there are boards with different revisions of the sk chip > > (skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. (0x9) here, see other > > thread for the full dmesg.) > > > > Looks like it. I have an A8V Deluxe with > skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. A3(0x7) > and never had any problems. > same here and I can't complain. It had a couple hickups with 5.4-RELEASE but was then fixed and if you update with cvsup it will be fixed. Ernsthome | help
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