Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 11:36 PDT From: pete@puffin.pelican.com (Pete Carah) To: msh@chesapeake.com Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Micron Millenium Message-ID: <m0swCxg-0000RfC@puffin.pelican.com> In-Reply-To: <01BA88DF.72EB0780@cdsp25.chesapeake.com>
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In article <01BA88DF.72EB0780@cdsp25.chesapeake.com> you write: >I am going to be installing a firewall and WWW/FTP server at my company >soon, and am considering running these on FreeBSD. I have to specify the >machines to buy for these (and we buy Micron PCs), so my question is >this... >Are there any known problems running FreeBSD on a Micron Millenium (uses >Triton PCI chipset) Pentium machine with the following hardware: > > - BusLogic BT-946C (Rev D) PCI SCSI controller > - SMC EtherPower PCI (10 Mb/s) Ethernet card > - Stealth 64 PCI graphics card I'm running a ASUS board (also triton) with an adaptec 2940 and SMC PCI controller (DEC 21040 model is supported *BUT* the newer 21041 model isn't yet; David Greenman knows more about that.) The 21040 diagnostic disk that comes with the board won't even recognize the 21041 so they did something pretty drastic :-( I can't comment on the BT946. Some firmware revs work and some don't, apparently. Jordan and Rod are probably the experts there. Some stealth cards won't work with XFree86 but some will; I don't know much about that since I use ISA/VLB cards in all of mine (mostly older S3 like the Orchid Fahrenheit 1280) (already have them...) >My main concern is the fact that I'll have three PCI cards (It seems I've >seen stuff in the FAQs about the various PCI chipsets with multiple PCI >cards). Also, is the SMC EtherPower card even supported under FreeBSD (I >don't know what chipset it uses)? I probably won't be using X-Windows, so >the graphics card is relatively unimportant (I could substitute for a >vanilla VGA card if I had to). > >If the SMC EtherPower isn't compatible, will I lose a lot of performance >using a lesser SMC Elite16 Ultra ISA card? Our link to our ISP will >probably be only 56K, so PCI ethernet cards may not provide any advantage. >Any thoughts? I get 1100 cps ftp's to/from a sparc 20 with a 21040 SMC card (with IDE disks on the P100, yet). *any* ethernet card will work at 56k, even a 3c501... SMC Elite16 ultras give 700-800 or so to/from the same sparc 20, to/from the same kind of (ide) disk, so aren't shabby either. On another firewall we have a 386-25 running freebsd 1.1.5, running a news bridge (not INN; won't run on an 8mb machine), the CERN web server, and various ftp/rlogin/dns stuff with plenty of spare cycles. (but it keeps running out of disk space & noone wants to upgrade it...) (don't use a 3c501 for the _internal_ ethernet side but elite ultras should be fine if the PCI doesn't make it :-) 56k links aren't demanding :-) (but we can't run an X server with any of the other stuff in the 8mb machine and not swap...) >Thanks, >Matt Hagadorn >msh@chesapeake.com -- Pete
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