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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:31:15AM -0600, James Van Artsdalen wrote:
> My Tyan K8W S2885 works fine with its onboard Broadcom.  Will's
> problems appear caused by ACPI problems, which is a property of the
> particular BIOS the motherboard interacting with whatever bugs exist
> in FreeBSD's ACPI interpreter.  Your Tyan probably works as-is.
> 
> Will might check the MSI website for BIOS updates, and perhaps the
> FreeBSD repository to see if there have been any ACPI fixes installed
> since RC2.
> 
> > From: "Michael J. Pelletier" <mjpelletier@mjpelletier.com>
> > Date: Tue,  6 Jan 2004 20:35:48 -0800
> > 
> > Please let me know if this gets fixed. I am just purchased the Tyan board. It
> > also has the Broadcom 10/100/1000 NICs builtin....

PLEASE don't top-post -- it looses context.