Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:04:10 -0800 From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: "Chris Howells" <howells@kde.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which motherboards work well with em(4)? Message-ID: <2a41acea0602201104v1c160788rf9db6bb5c96e7b34@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <63472.192.168.0.1.1140456976.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk> References: <63472.192.168.0.1.1140456976.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk>
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On 2/20/06, Chris Howells <howells@kde.org> wrote: > After about 9 months of messing around with two servers with em(4) gigabi= t > 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 Socke= t > A motherboard. [1] > > I think it might therefore be time to try a different motherboard. Can an= y > 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...] I can't really help you with the AMD motherboard, dont get much chance to work with them at Intel :) However, I wondered exactly what NIC you have? And have you tried taking the tip of tree driver, Scott and others have bee= n hard at work tweaking it. I can't swear that we are 100% yet, but you should give that a try before a whole motherboard swap :) Cheers, Jack <Intel LAD>
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