What kind of MotherBoard is better for FreeBsd and linux?

[Florent Thoumie]

Le Vendredi 10 juin 2005 à 22:01 +0200, Adriaan de Groot a écrit :

> Case in point: I just got an Asus A8N-SLI (an accident on the fscking 
> university administration where my order for an A8V goes through 6 layers of 
> clueless bureaucracy to get to the store -- I guess there was some Greek 
> interpretation somewhere along the line) which is nForce4 based. Now, for 
> 5-stable users, you get:
> 
> 1) Won't boot 5.3-R amd64
> 2) In 5.3-R i386, is missing SATA RAID ('cause it's a Sil3114 which isn't 
> supported on any platform as RAID, but does manage to squeak by as a regular 
> SATA controller) and missing the onboard NIC (since nve is 6-CURRENT)

	5-STABLE is not 5.3-R.

> Unfortunately I didn't have my 5.4-R CDs with me to try it with either. Still, 
> this board is listed as "fully functional" on the motherboards page, while it 
> clearly isn't. Maybe for the original reporter who wants neither SATA RAID 
> nor networking it's fine.

	I'll be happy to add some information to the Notes column
	should you provide any that it doesn't contain already.

	If you read this page carefully, you'll see I already mentioned
	the on-board controller and the SATA-RAID chipset. Note that
	there are two on-board ethernet controllers (sk(4) and nve(4)),
	and the former is well supported on 5.4.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org
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