From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 11:01:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7932516A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:01:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (pimout1-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2533D43FAF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:01:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsharpe@richardsharpe.com) Received: from ns.aus.com (adsl-63-206-121-21.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.121.21])h8BI13Dw161478; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:01:04 -0400 Received: from ns.aus.com (durable [127.0.0.1]) by ns.aus.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8BI5F9i003819; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:05:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (rsharpe@localhost) by ns.aus.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id h8BI5FVZ003815; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:05:15 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: ns.aus.com: rsharpe owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:05:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Sharpe X-X-Sender: rsharpe@ns.aus.com To: Yaoping Ruan In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:01:07 -0000 On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Yaoping Ruan wrote: > Hello, > > We plan to install FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 with 1 XEON > 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB PC2100 DDR memory, and a Seagate 120GB ATA 7200RPM > harddisk, and use the server box for high demand SpecWeb99 tests. Does > anyone have any experience on this Server Board, and see any compatibility > problem here? The reason I am asking is that we had some kernel > compatibility issues on other Intel Board. Is that the dual-processor-capable borad? If so, I have one of those at home, and it works with FreeBSD 4.7 or so. It certainly has the 7501 chipset in it and 2x1.8GHz Xeons. > An other question about this box is the two on-board Gigabit Network > Controller. Do they work fine on FreeBSD? May I use fiber Giganet NCI like > Netgear GA621 on it? They worked for me. I dunno about the fibre stuff. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com