From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 4:45:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707A637B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 04:45:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perimeter.co.za (obelix.perimeter.co.za [209.212.102.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1017F43E6A for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 04:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Received: from PATRICK ([209.212.102.245]) (AUTH: LOGIN bsd@perimeter.co.za) by perimeter.co.za with esmtp; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:45:27 +0200 Message-ID: <00d701c2533f$8eb24cd0$b50d030a@PATRICK> From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Feliks J.Welfeld" References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020902212048.00a5d9a0@pop.broadband.rogers.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the Asus A7N266-VM motherboard Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:46:32 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Feliks J.Welfeld" > I want to setup inexpensive FreeBSD box, and I am looking at > Asus A7N266-VM motherboard, which has good price/performance > ratio, and has positive reviews coming from the Windoze world. I am running the same MoBo, with Athlon XP 1700+ > It uses Nvidia nForce 220D chipset, which integrates video > adapter, audio ( i810 compatible ) and seemingly exotic > Ethernet MAC. Mine does NOT have the NIC chipset option. I have installed an SMC NIC which runs off the 'dc' driver. IIRC, the MoBo should have a Realtek PHY chipset, which is not at all "exotic". But, I speak under correction here... _IF_ that is the chipset, then the 'rl' driver in GENERIC should drive it fine. > Did anybody tried to install FreeBSD on such motherboard? > With success? Yes :) > How difficult would it be to adapt Linux driver for the MAC > ( provided in source by Nvidia ) to FreeBSD? I know, I can > get supported NIC for less than $15, but why not to use the > stuff which is there? I can't comment on this last bit :( Regards, Patrick O'Reilly. ___ _ __ / _ )__ __ (_)_ __ ___ _/ /____ __ / __/ -_) _) / ~ ) -_), ,-/ -_) _) /_/ \__/_//_/_/~/_/\__/ \__/\__/_/ http://www.perimeter.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message