From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 15:16:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D20716A419 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 15:16:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hannah.tgi.net (hannah.tgi.net [64.34.34.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEB513C457 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 15:16:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: (qmail 19301 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2007 08:22:12 -0700 Received: from cs213-72.fsmodem.washington.edu (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (140.142.173.73) by dogday.net with SMTP; 6 Oct 2007 08:22:12 -0700 Message-ID: <4707A6B8.2090103@u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:16:08 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aryeh Friedman References: <00DD75A5-7F07-41B8-9351-409D4CE9DF8B@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Abit Motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:16:38 -0000 Aryeh Friedman wrote: > On 10/5/07, Doug Hardie 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