From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 12 2:57:46 2003 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 A2CCB37B401 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:57:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1384C43EB2 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:57:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ihsan_junaidi@yahoo.com.sg) Received: from unknown (HELO trigger.lan) (ihsan?junaidi@219.93.197.144 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Jan 2003 10:57:43 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Good integrated Athlon chipset for FreeBSD Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:57:59 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301121857.59111.ihsan_junaidi@yahoo.com.sg> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, =09I'm building a small workgroup (10 PCs) which will be used for softwar= e and=20 network testing as well for day-to-day usage. We're also conducting small= =20 classes teaching UNIX for school students in our area. Therefore I'm look= ing=20 for a good integrated Athlon chipset which are supported in FreeBSD. I'm=20 specifically looking at Epox EP-8KMM+ utilizing the VIA KM266 chipset. Bu= t=20 I'm a little doubtful about the sound, video and above all, the NIC. The sound uses Realtek ALC201A chipset, the video is VT8375 ProSavage8 an= d the=20 NIC utilizes Realtek RTL8100B(L). I can't seem to find on the FreeBSD=20 hardware page supports for the sound and the NIC while a search on Xfree=20 driver site turned zero on the video. Does this mean, that they are not=20 supported? I'm really interested in the chipset because it's cheap and mo= st=20 of us are literate when it comes to hardware, we can skip the support tha= t=20 comes with pricier brands and motherboards. My other option would be Asus A7N-266E using the nForce 420D chipset. I'v= e=20 heard cases that this particular motherboard is usable in FreeBSD. The NI= C is=20 RTL8139 (rl) while other nForce boards seem to use the MCP-D built-in LAN= ,=20 which I can't seem to find any cases of it being run on any installation. I'm open to any suggestion that will allow me to choose the best platform= for=20 our research. Cost of course is a factor but I will not buy cheap if it's= =20 going to prove a hassle in the future. Thank you for your time. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message