Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:26:54 -0700 From: John Reynolds <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org> To: Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran@rcn.com> Cc: John Reynolds <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org>, , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support for components of Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 motherboard? Message-ID: <18020.44494.161536.424781@whale.home-net> In-Reply-To: <46649F51.70809@rcn.com> References: <18020.33418.651466.347807@whale.home-net> <46649F51.70809@rcn.com>
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[ On Monday, June 4, Gary Corcoran wrote: ] > > I just built a new PC based on a Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2 board. Not exactly > the same, but it seems very similar except mine has built-in video. Since > it is intended for a personal file server, all I wanted was VGA. similar enough--I'm mostly interested in reports about the onboard NIC and sound. > DVD-RW drive connected to PATA (JMicron controller) worked fine for install. > Later, a hard disk connected to the same PATA cable along with the DVD-RW > also worked. cool. > > SATA ports provided by ICH8 work fine in AHCI mode (only tried 1.5Gbps SATA > for now). again, cool. > I haven't tried the audio. from what I can gather it looks like -current is supporting this ICH8/RealTec combo fairly well. There appears to be diff's to apply to -STABLE with a "use at your own risk" type clause attached. > The Marvell 8056 ethernet is supported by the msk driver. It probes and attaches > okay, but, long story short, it is unusable. Pinged okay, but just trying to > vi a small file over the network crashed the network connection. Another time > the lights on the network switch were constantly going off and on every few > seconds. It's just unusable in its current state. When I get time, I'll try > to provide a proper report to -current and get some help, but for now I had > to plug in an Intel card in a PCI slot. interesting ... yes, it'd be nice if this was supported, but the board has enough PCI slots to use "working" NICs ..... thanks for your report! -Jr -- John & Jennifer Reynolds johnjen at reynoldsnet.org www.reynoldsnet.org Structural/Physical Design - some group - Intel jreynold at sedona.ch.intel.com Running FreeBSD since 2.1.5-RELEASE. KT7JCR FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! "Unix is user friendly, it's just particular about the friends it chooses."
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