From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 26 14:11:34 2003 Return-Path: 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 C80A616A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 14:11:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-in.m-online.net (svr8.m-online.net [62.245.150.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B5843D41 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 14:11:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from h@schmalzbauer.de) Received: from mail.m-online.net (svr14.m-online.net [192.168.3.144]) by svr8.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1152C55E0; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:11:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de (ppp-62-245-160-178.mnet-online.de [62.245.160.178]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA85F2C921; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:11:13 +0100 (CET) From: Harald Schmalzbauer To: Anclo Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:11:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1072472355.3feca12314771@vmail.3dresearch.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20031226161341.02ac91a0@imap.telissant.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20031226161341.02ac91a0@imap.telissant.com> X-Birthday: 06 Oktober 1972 X-Name: Harald Schmalzbauer X-Phone1: +49 (0) 163 555 3237 X-Phone2: +49 (0) 89 18947781 X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-Country: Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_BIL7/lHcCliRLmj"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200312262311.13459@harrymail> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA Tech Mini-ITX X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 22:11:34 -0000 --Boundary-02=_BIL7/lHcCliRLmj Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 26 December 2003 22:39, Anclo wrote: > At 04:06 PM 12/26/2003, you wrote: > >On Friday 26 December 2003 21:59, Anclo wrote: > > > I'm considering to build a small VIA Tech Mini-ITX system using the C3 > > > 800 MHz motherboard/CPU or the Eden 533 MHz. This box would serve as a > > > gateway/router. > > > > > > Has anyone have experience with VIA Tech Mini-ITX motherboards? I'd > > > like to use it to run 4.9-RELEASE. > > > > > > Any advice would be appreciated - I'd hate to find out that there is = no > > > FreeBSD driver for the built-in network card... > > > >I'm using a older C3 800 miniITX without any problem. > >AFAIK even the latest miniITX has the "VIA Rhine" chipset for ethernet. > > Also the PLE266 should work, but of course you cannot use the mpeg2 > > decoder. Don't know any OS which could make use of it. > > > >-Harry > > Harry, > > many thanx - my 10 year old system which I just set up as gateway has > expired and I figured that a C3 800 would be a relatively inexpensive > replacement. > > Just curious - what driver does your system say it uses for the C3 800 > miniITX's NIC? You can watch the dmesg at http://www.schmalzbauer.de/netz It's machine tek =2DHarry P.S. I heard that there is linux development for the mpeg2 decoder but didn= 't=20 know that it's yet available. Good to hear :) > > Anclo --Boundary-02=_BIL7/lHcCliRLmj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/7LIBBylq0S4AzzwRAjJDAJ9mK7GgS0z55EAAg9oem+kRz7A5bgCgjk5N CoBThdQeNgvOxxuX1dJ3wNk= =wiQu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_BIL7/lHcCliRLmj--