workstation mobo

[Gary Jennejohn]

Juergen Lock writes:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:16:52PM +1000, ? ? wrote:
> > On 8/13/05, I wrote:
> >[...]
> 
> > > I just got a new box with an Asus A8V Deluxe board (VIA K8T800 Pro,
> > > Socket 939), and so far everything seems to be working.  The only
> > > unusual thing i had to do for FreeBSD (5.4-R) was adding a patch
> > > to the sk nic driver (see other thread.)
> > > 
> > 
> > Update on ASUS A8V Deluxe for archives
> > 
> > I installed 5.4-RELEASE about April (2005) and track 5-Stable on that
> > hardware straight from CVS - never had a prob with sk0 yet, it's
> > worked since day one with no boot time errors.
> 
> Yeah I was surprised too that my network didnt work out-of-the-box,
> as i had read of other ppl having no problems at all with this board.
> Apparently there are boards with different revisions of the sk chip
> (skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. (0x9) here, see other
> thread for the full dmesg.)
> 

Looks like it. I have an A8V Deluxe with
	skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. A3(0x7)
and never had any problems.

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