Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:36:16 -0000 (GMT) From: "Chris Howells" <howells@kde.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Which motherboards work well with em(4)? Message-ID: <63472.192.168.0.1.1140456976.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk>
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After about 9 months of messing around with two servers with em(4) gigabit cards and having continual problems with them randomly stopping working, particularly under reasonably heavy load, I think I have finally come to the conclusion that they don't work very well with the Asus A7V8X-X Socket A motherboard. [1] I think it might therefore be time to try a different motherboard. Can any body recommend a board that works well with em(4)? I'm looking for a socket A board so I can keep the current Duron 1800, or possibly a Socket 754 or 939. Don't really care about the rest of the specifications though price is quite important (don't want onboard RAID or SCSI or anything fancy). Thanks for any advice. [1 - I've tried everything: various patches; FreeBSD 4, 5 and 6; changing the interrupt mode in the BIOS from ACIC to PIC; disabling ACPI...] -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- howells@kde.org Web: http://www.kde.org.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt Developer: http://www.kde.org
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