From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 20 17:14:28 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 4896216A417 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:14:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from user0@tkgeomap.org) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14C313C448 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:14:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from user0@tkgeomap.org) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao106.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080120165914.EEQU20005.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:59:14 -0500 Received: from localhost.my.domain ([68.97.41.207]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id fUyW1Y00S4UAjD80000000; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:58:31 -0500 Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0KGxWfd021243 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:59:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from user0@tkgeomap.org) Received: (from tkgeomap@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m0KGxW7b021242 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:59:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from user0@tkgeomap.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tkgeomap set sender to user0@tkgeomap.org using -f Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:59:32 -0600 From: Gordon work To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080120165932.GA21170@localhost.ok.cox.net> References: <47928642.2090707@gmail.com> <20080120160405.E14916@delplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080120160405.E14916@delplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:14:28 -0000 > >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. > The RealTek LAN works fine on my box. Audio from Realtek ALC883 also works, but I would not know about ALC888. tkgeomap502$ uname -a FreeBSD localhost 7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 #5: Fri Dec 21 22:03:40 CST 2007 root@localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM amd64 tkgeomap503$ dmesg | grep -i realtek re0: port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xfdaff000-0xfdafffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci2 pcm0: Note that I'm on U.S. cable internet, so I'm not too worried about network performance. This is on Asus M2A-VM HDMI motherboard (AMD 690G chipset). Everything works, although ACPI appears to be inaccessible. Cheers, Gordon