From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 10 14:41:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from otto.oss.uswest.net (otto.oss.uswest.net [204.147.85.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DEDB14A29 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:41:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pmckenna@oss.uswest.net) Received: (qmail 80754 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2000 22:45:23 -0000 Received: from otto.oss.uswest.net (HELO oss.uswest.net) (204.147.85.81) by otto.oss.uswest.net with SMTP; 10 Jan 2000 22:45:23 -0000 Message-ID: <387A6103.3D531371@oss.uswest.net> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:45:23 -0600 From: Pete Mckenna X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rowan Crowe Cc: aussie-isp@aussie.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TX pro II motherboard References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We have 50 or so L440GX MB runnig FreeBSD and are pretty happy with them. They have a Intel PRO/100+ (Intel 82559) and Adaptec 7896 Dual Channel SCSI onboard. These boards also can export preboot info via a serial port which is nice for long distance bios access. We have many of these server in remote dark sites. A new rev is supposed to support up to 700MHZ PIII. Oh, and these are SMP boards. Pete Rowan Crowe wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have some vague plans to build a low profile server, using a > (reasonably) standard motherboard which includes everything needed on it. > Along with a low profile power supply I hope to fit this into a 1 or 2RU > rack mount case. > > So far the only motherboard suggested to me that has onboard ethernet and > video as well as the usual onboard stuff is the TX pro II. > > Does anyone have any experience with this board? Even if it's in a home > computer running Windoze, any good reports or horror stories will be > appreciated. > > Also, does anyone know whether the onboard ethernet is a generic NE2000 > (or similar generic chipset) which FreeBSD supports? The supplied Windows > drivers will of course be totally useless... > > Cheers. > > -- > Rowan Crowe http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ > Sensation Internet Services http://www.sensation.net.au/ > Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-9388-9260 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Peter McKenna U S WEST !NTERPRISE pmckenna@uswest.net http://www.interprise.com/ Main 612-664-4000 FAX 612-664-4770 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message