Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:04:06 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One good report.... Message-ID: <20041029160405.GA68330@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20041029142721.GA7999@isis.wad.cz> References: <200410281746.i9SHkMOC008373@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20041029142721.GA7999@isis.wad.cz>
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On 2004-10-29 16:27, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> wrote: > # wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu / 2004-10-28 13:46:22 -0400: > > I recently acquired a new FX-53 desktop. I'm not yet ready to set it > > up yet, so I took a few moments to burn an RC1 CD and try installing. > > Everything worked flawlessly except for the onboard Marvell gigabit. > > (I was able to use an Intel adapter instead.) It took about fifteen > > seconds to do a minimal installation. > > > > The motherboard is an Asus A8V Deluxe. > > And I've been having a hell of a time with (plain old i386) Asus > A7V880: it doesn't want to work with a PCI graphics card (affects > both 4.10 and 5.3-RC1), and I still have to find out what's wrong > with the onboard SysKonnect NIC, but given I've been having little > luck with a (known good) xl card as well, that will probably turn > out to be a pilot error. SysKonnect used to be *very* problematic with 5.X or later. At least that was the state of things during the summer and early in September when I tried re-enabling the onboard adapter of my workstation at work. I have to admit that I haven't tried recent CURRENT versions with the same adapter though, so things might have changed since then. - Giorgos
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