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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:39:27 -0500
From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net>
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:55:27 +0200 (CEST)
Laurentiu Pancescu <plaur_27@yahoo.de> wrote:

> I'm tempted by a nForce2-based motherboard (either
> with on-board graphics or RAID controller).  Browsing
> the freebsd-hardware archives, I found reports about
> various problems, such as networking or video not
> working, as recent as Dec 2003.  Are these problems
> solved now?  Is anybody succesfully running FreeBSD
> 5.2.1 (or current) on such a motherboard?  Are sound,
> networking, graphics, working?

I am running a Abit NF7-S2. Except for the ata device being detected
as generic and the specific sound chip used on that board, it works
fine. Ethernet works well on it.