From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 7 02:31:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0C516BF9D for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 02:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from klamath.irbis.net.ru (klamath.irbis.net.ru [85.118.141.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BA843D45 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 02:23:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from klamath.irbis.net.ru (yuri@localhost.irbis.net.ru [127.0.0.1]) by klamath.irbis.net.ru (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k572NMqK052081; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 06:23:22 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by klamath.irbis.net.ru (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k572NGYb052056; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 06:23:16 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: klamath.irbis.net.ru: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f From: Yuri Pankov To: Andrew Reilly In-Reply-To: <20060606133653.GA31028@gurney.reilly.home> References: <444DF001.7020305@jetnet.co.uk> <444E1542.7040309@gmail.com> <20060606133653.GA31028@gurney.reilly.home> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:23:15 +0400 Message-Id: <1149646995.91763.6.camel@klamath.irbis.net.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.7.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mb recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:31:38 -0000 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: . 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. Yuri