From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 29 07:16:39 2008 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 050071065670 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:16:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from ti-edu.ch (posta.ti-edu.ch [195.176.176.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 510288FC13 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:16:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) X-Virus-Scanned: by cgpav Received: from [193.5.152.27] (HELO [127.0.0.1]) by ti-edu.ch (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.12) with ESMTP id 25718745 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4816CB95.1000805@supsi.ch> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:17:41 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <480938EC.2000103@supsi.ch> <20080419090036.GA6302@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <480A21B4.3010702@supsi.ch> <20080419220653.GA53245@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <480E2C78.9050407@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <480E2C78.9050407@supsi.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: is this hardware supported? 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: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:16:39 -0000 Hi. Here I'm back with a very short report on installing FreeBSD 6.3/7.0 and others on this mainboard: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2534&ProductName=GA-G33M-DS2R It's a Gigabyte (model GA-G33M-DS2R) mainboard based on the Intel G33 + ICH9R Chipset and Intel E8200 processor. I tried to install FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0, xen 4.1 and CentOS 5.1 The results are all in favour of FreeBSD :) FreeBSD: It installs without any problem both using MB SATA fakeraid or plain SATA disk. All HW is correctly recognized and in no more than 5 minutes FreeBSD is fully installed, configured and up and running on network. No tests on graphics, though. xen: Installation fails as it says the system doesn't have a NIC. After providing the NIC driver during installation, linux doesn't see the SATA fakeraid, but only the bare disks. CentOS: Installation gets to the end and lets a bootable system, but the system doesn't recognice the NIC nor the SATA fakeraid. Graphics is correctly configured and Gnome starts up correctly. Best regards. Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Roland, > > Thank you for your support. I'll post here the result of > installing FreeBSD on that HW. > > Best regards. > Robi. > > > Roland Smith wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Ok. So what about this? >>> http://de.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1178&l1=3&l2=11&l3=307 >>> >>> >>> Has anybody been using it? >>> With what success? >>> Can anybody use the embedded RAID controller to make a HW RAID 1 >>> with two SATA disks? >> >> According to ata(4), the ICH8 chipset is supported. According to >> ataraid(4) the jmicron is supported. >> >> But if it doesn't work, you can always use gmirror(8). >> >>> Is the NIC supported and working well? >> >> Hard to say. The spec page you provided doesn't list the type of Realtek >> chip used. Again, if it doesn't work get a cheap Realtek 8139 card. >> >>> Again, I couldn't find any of its chipsets in the 6.3 supported >>> HW list, so that's why I ask the list. >> >> It is better to check the manual pages of drivers. >> >>> But in this case I'm a bit muc more confident that FreeBSD 6.3 >>> can run on this HW >> >> I recently booted FreeBSD on a system with a intel motherboard with a >> ICH9 chipset. Everything seemed to work OK. >> >> Roland > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Robi