Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:23:15 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mb recommendation Message-ID: <1149646995.91763.6.camel@klamath.irbis.net.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060606133653.GA31028@gurney.reilly.home> References: <444DF001.7020305@jetnet.co.uk> <444E1542.7040309@gmail.com> <20060606133653.GA31028@gurney.reilly.home>
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On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 23:36 +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:25:38PM +0400, Yuri Pankov wrote: > > David Reid wrote: > > >At present I have an ABIT AN-8 Ultra MB which features the nVidia nForce > > >4 chipset. Given nVidia's attitude to releasing information and the > > >resultant lack of information/drivers on FreeBSD I've finally decided to > > >change it. Requirements are SATA (ideally with raid) and PCI-e. ATX > > >form. Anyone got any recommendations? > > > > > >Thanks, > > > > > >david > > > > Following URL http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html > > can provide some info on motherboards for amd64 platform. > > > > I'm using Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI. Onboard NForce4 SATA controller is working > > without issues, though RAID functionality is not tested. > > What are you using for a network adaptor? I've never been able > to get the nve driver to work with the nForce4 MCP9 (?) on board > my Gigabyte K8N9(?) motherboard. I had been happily getting by > with a spare intel 21143 (dc) PCI card until I upgraded to > 6.1-STABLE this morning (after about a month away on holidays). > Now I can't get either to work, even though ifconfig seems to be > doing all of the right things. > > All of the other on-board things work fine: SATA, FW, memory > etc. > > Cheers, > I'm using onboard NIC, which is recognized as nve0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP9 Networking Adapter>. It's working fine after fixes in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96391. According to changelog in this commit http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/nve/if_nve.c?rev=1.7.2.9&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=RELENG_6 , changes from HEAD, which get rid of those nasty timeout(N) messages (and actual small lockups during the chip reset), were MFCed recently. Yurihome | help
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