Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:16:08 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Abit Motherboard Message-ID: <4707A6B8.2090103@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <bef9a7920710051523q70b3bce0v195dc9c5cd5740f1@mail.gmail.com> References: <00DD75A5-7F07-41B8-9351-409D4CE9DF8B@lafn.org> <bef9a7920710051523q70b3bce0v195dc9c5cd5740f1@mail.gmail.com>
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Aryeh Friedman wrote: > On 10/5/07, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: > >> I am planning for replacing one of my servers. I want to upgrade to >> at least a dual-core machine. I found the Abit IP 35 Pro motherboard >> at Frys which looks like it has most everything I need. However, I >> don't find any discussions about that particular board in the >> archives or Google. Has anyone used that board and does it work well >> with FreeBSD 6? Thanks. >> > > P35 in general has caused problems > That board should work perfectly fine on FreeBSD 7-CURRENT (or 7-RELEASE when that becomes available), and for all intensive purposes should work with 6-RELEASE; you'll want to update to the latest version of 6 though because there were some driver releases that came out which allow you to use Marvell NICs (msk driver), for instance. I have a comparable board from ASUS (P5K-E) and it worked fine with 6.x (6.1-rc1, 6.2 latest), and works nicely with 7-CURRENT (sources sup'ed from Sept 27th). So unless Abit does something funky with the devices onboard, things should work perfectly fine (not sure about onboard graphics though since I have an nvidia card :)...). Cheers, -Garrett
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