From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 2 15:57:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0938216A41F for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:57:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ke.han@redstarling.com) Received: from smtp101.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp101.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79B3C43D6B for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:57:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ke.han@redstarling.com) Received: (qmail 20228 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2005 15:57:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (jhancock@patternware.com@218.79.199.193 with plain) by smtp101.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 2005 15:57:15 -0000 Message-ID: <43906ED8.5060209@redstarling.com> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:57:12 +0800 From: "ke.han" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Tyan i7520 mobo problems on FreeBSD 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:57:18 -0000 Dear list, I have been continuing efforts to get the Tyan i7520 mobo to work with freeBSD 6. Here are some of the problems. I have tried the things suggested by others like turning on/off Hyperthreading...no luck. If I can't find a solution by Monday, I will be forced to pull this mobo and buy another. This is costly, but not compared to the time and face I've lost over the past month. Centos 4.2 installs/works perfect. So this is a problem between freeBSD 6 installer and the mobo, not the mobo itself. freeBSD 5.4 gives my similar problems. Here are a few of the problems with freeBSD 6 and the tyan i7520: 1 - Floppy not found. I was able to fix this by turning off the onboard SATA. 2 - EIDE or SATA drive connected directly to respective mobo controller not found. I'm not an expert at hints, but I tried a few things and no luck. 3 - 3Ware 9550sx card not found. With the latest not-released 9.3.0.2 driver called twa_9ksx.ko, I was able to get the module loaded during sysinstall and the card was usable and the install completed. After reboot, I entered boot prompt and reloaded the same module and boot but this time the card does not work. Another sided effect of loading this module in sysinstall is that after it is loaded, the installer tells me it can't find my cdrom to complete the install...yes, the same cdrom I have booted the installer with. But an ftp install from this point worked. So, I would like any suggestions as to fixing item 3 above or find a suitable mobo to replace. If I end up replacing the mobo I am happy to gift the tyan i7520 to a team member that wants to debug with it. My mobo requirements are straightforward: 1 - Ethernet - two ports, great throughput with _no patches_ for all the freeBSD 6 advance networking features: pf, altq, kqueue, polling. I just want it work right "out of the box". 2 - works with my 3ware 9550sx-4lp card. 3 - It would be very nice if the sysinstall recognized my cd and floppy with no hints or any other tricks. thanks, ke han