From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 20 01:18:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66C416A417 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:18:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7592C13C448 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:18:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from [192.168.1.29] (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDFE5C22; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:21:28 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <4792A17E.9060208@hdk5.net> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:18:54 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061211 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Mars References: <47928642.2090707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47928642.2090707@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: noc@hdk5.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:18:55 -0000 Greg Mars wrote: > I'm buying parts for a computer and want to make sure that the core > components are as freebsd friendly as possible. So far, I've decided > on a core 2 quad q6600 and I'm choosing the motherboard now. However > it seems many of the popular motherboards have Realtek ALC888 as > built-in audio and Realtek 8111B as built-in LAN. > I read at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/i386/article.html > > that the sound should work but I couldn't find any info on the LAN. > Does anyone on the list have any experience with it? > > By the way, I'm going to run FreeBSD 7. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Aloha, Realtek 8169 is a 1000 M and works on 7.* and 8.* I think 8111 maybe old 100M ? Are you sure about the Realtek model #? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + noc@hdk5.net + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol