From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 8 10:56:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-90-77.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.90.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76AC937B479; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:56:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA8IvvF03041; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:57:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011081857.eA8IvvF03041@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Nick Barnes Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel D815EEA motherboard sound and network In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:57:10 GMT." <4453.973699030@raven.ravenbrook.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 10:57:57 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I have a new PC with an Intel D815EEA motherboard. This comes with > onboard sound, network, and display. I have a Matrox graphics card so > I don't care about the onboard display. > > The motherboard doc claims that the network is compatible with Intel > Pro 100, so I expected it to show up as fxp0; it didn't. Archives of > freebsd-hardware suggest this is known and unlikely to be fixed. Oh > well. I've put a RealTek NIC in instead. You should check the archives more closely. It is supported by the fxp driver; should be picked up in 4.1.1 or later. > The motherboard doc also claims that the sound is compatible with > SoundBlaster PCI 128. I've never used sound under FreeBSD, so I'm a > bit of a novice here. Can someone advise me what I need in my kernel > config to drive this? I've tried a couple of things (pcm, snd) with > no visible effect on the dmesg. I don't think this is the case; there's support for the ICH2 in the pipeline though. > Here's a verbose boot with GENERIC. Note also the "Bad PnP BIOS data > checksum" message. You gotta love Intel for that one. Don't worry about it too much. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message