From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 6 15: 3:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BB914D78 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01644; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905062201.PAA01644@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Daniel Lundqvist Cc: FreeBSD-Hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microstar mainboard In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 May 1999 00:00:15 +0200." <19990507000015.A23308@noc.dn.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 15:01:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > One more try :) > > Hi, > > I just bought a Microstar MS6120N dual mainboard and i have couple of > problems: > > 1: The kernel spits out "Bad SMBIOS table checksum!" > when it boots,it seems to work ok anyway,but it would > be nice to know what's wrong It's a harmless warning; we don't use the SMBIOS stuff. I put the code to find the table in back when it looked like it would be useful, but most motherboard vendors are putting all their code in drivers for a certain system management package rather than the BIOS. > 2: FreeBSD doesn't find any of the onboard IDE controllers Don't know about this one. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message