From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Mar 11 6:31: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97D037BC26 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 06:30:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id PAA19532 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:30:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA53342 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 12:41:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: console friendly motherboard/BIOS ? Date: 11 Mar 2000 12:41:03 +0100 Message-ID: <8adbcf$1k2g$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000310171326.E4562@mello.ucsf.edu> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org wrote: > originally i thought i would get a PC Weasel to turn my FreeBSD server > into something i could >really< manage from the console. Branching off my own set of concerns: * Has anybody so far actually successfully ordered a PC Weasel? I've been told that it would become available RSN, next quarter, next month, etc for what must be the better part of a year. A few days ago it still said "inquire" on their website. * I've heard rumors that (some) modern BIOSes don't support MDA any longer. Any experiences there? * Finally, ISA is really being phased out. At this year's CeBIT many board manufacturers displayed Athlon boards (I didn't look at the Intel ones) that were PCI/AGP only, without any ISA slots. Actually I appreciate that move, but it kills the current Weasel. > can anyone suggest a motherboard/BIOS that does this? i'm not > picky about the CPU, any current models would likely be plenty > fast. Sure. Take any alpha board with SRM. Since SRM is required to run BSD in the first place, any supported alpha will do. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message