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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Epox 8KTA2
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010116182753.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> from "Daniel O'Connor" at "Jan 16, 2001 06:27:53 pm"
To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:11:09 +0100 (CET)
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It seems Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> 
> Here you go ->
> 
> spare1:~>sudo pciconf -l
> isab0@pci0:7:0: class=0x060100 card=0x00001106 chip=0x06861106 rev=0x40 hdr=0x00

Yup, its a 686B southbridge..

> >  I have a hunch that this board has a VIA 82C686B on it, and those seem
> >  to be problematic as VIA apparently changed the programming interface
> >  yet again, and still with the same ID as they've used for at least
> >  3 different kinds of silicon :(
> 
> Ahh.. how clever of them :(


Yeah, VIA has absolutely no sense of versioning :(

However I'm waiting for them to send the docs on the 'B chip, but normally
they are extremely bad at that too, so if you guys are willing to be
crash dummies, I'll see what I can find out...

-Søren


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