From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 18:33:44 2011 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 37AF0106566B for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:33:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerry@seibercom.net) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5718FC08 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb15 with SMTP id 15so2380382gwb.13 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.104.6 with SMTP id b6mr1305968ybc.21.1314297221611; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (twdp-174-109-142-001.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.142.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f4sm237649yhn.69.2011.08.25.11.33.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio (zeus [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jerry@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3RlDfW3WWhz2CG4y for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:33:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:33:38 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20110825143338.536ef267@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <4E568F9C.7090403@wallnet.com> References: <4E567C14.7070909@wallnet.com> <4E568F9C.7090403@wallnet.com> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.5; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEUAAABYRlwJCw4FAgAIBwKprDkBAQFQLR0BAgCir7VRttp8AAACAUlEQVQ4jZWUTYvbMBCGTVl8V2hX6Gg5G5FbWQdBj0lEfE7BhN4cyzi5Wt1E5L70roWy6N92xok/skkP+5IYrMcz78xIduDWpNM3vFzuA/jX5EY1AI6KHFwW/CzFuQAwqUBbV12p+CzIh6Awq7sg33pn5D64SQXAexffeuQlA/L35RrkaB551OjGfP/cAO8mCNaDcgvfky5ijoD0pAXlCQCnljiAjsJD9Ax05Ko5sZxbnLQcmM+dZg5IjREfZrWIHK0JuwU68pAGwHvfRxBundRzTxxz3r9dNUikPsEihjz2Dc4kjp1hKsJGuot4EDxaxzMoC7XqhxhOSfZrTS6gSX1JVdjp+o1PvWfekXgw3WL0g70nDEwA0H0HQsEZc8sTmFMTkWUfYWC/vdR1zQy3xLQgLwzu90QnlnFLjeiGWBjwhb4Sa42IqOg2qqS4O1/zhKokFUb1Q8Rj4Eb69WVflXEehJ35DgChVTE5n50eaGyMLOfH8AOodoSM4PVYAQgQdBulOa+knklYks3vAuQ+uX492lTl+A+e8qBV2AKoXalVKFfyuUp0pUp1ARaUHh82lv9MN+Ig7CZtgE6FNYvjlywT2VP2dMgOG46gTIWcqdfvuwyXNz0oMJNd/N5lh1YNiJt19ADTUo3VuFSNeQwVqRSrGjSCp53fk2g+Mvfk/gfoPxHeUS8MH9vRAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: shopping for a new server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:33:44 -0000 On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400 Tim Kellers articulated: > Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. > > > > One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS > > causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set > > serial ports to be "On without Console Redirection." You should also > > leave Intel I/OAT disabled, since FreeBSD has no support for it. Is anyone working on integrating support into FreeBSD? There is an abundance of info available and drivers for both Windows (obviously) and Linux. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/IntelPRO/R167266/en/ioat.htm http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-023725.htm -- Jerry ✌ jerry+fbsd@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html