Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:10:42 +1000 From: Ivan Carey <ivan@careytech.com.au> To: youshi10@u.washington.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard Chipset Support List Message-ID: <461C9802.9060109@careytech.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0704101131460.24821@hymn01.u.washington.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0704101131460.24821@hymn01.u.washington.edu>
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youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Sean Murphy wrote: > >> I am having troubling installing FreeBSD 6.2 Release on and Intel >> DG965OT >> >> http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DG965OT/index.htm >> >> Which uses the Intel® G965 Chipset >> >> I have checked under the following link but it does not mention >> support for specific motherboards or chipsets. I realize that >> listing motherboards would be to exhaustive but chipsets maybe would >> be more of a limited scope. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-i386.html >> >> Does FreeBSD provide a list for Chipsets? Is there a man page I can >> look at like the other drivers listed on that page have man pages >> except for Chipsets? >> >> Thanks > > Sean, > G965 is a recent chipset, so I suggest that you download a > snapshot build of the livecd and install using that. The snapshot > folder is located at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/. > -Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > Hello Sean, I recently asked the same question at www.expert-exchange.com and the answer I received is that the board is supported. have a look at the product brief for the mother board http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/g965/prod_brief.pdf it says the the I/O controller hub is an ICH8 and the FreeBSD 6.2 release notes for the ata(4) driver http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE I am still learning myself how to understand the release notes. Ivan
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