Re: Good integrated Athlon chipset for FreeBSD
On Monday 13 January 2003 04:28, Adam Maas wrote: > The nForce based boards would be your best bet. Good solid chipset with a > decent video core. You should be able to find one that's less expensive > than the Asus. Perhaps an MSI or Gigabyte. > Gigabyte doesn't make nForce. I'm keen on the MSI but I'm unsure of the NIC support. Unlike Asus which uses the clunky RTL8139 chipset, the MSI sticks with Nvidia original design, that is using the ones integrated into the MCP. I couldn't find any listing of it in the Hardware section so I'm assuming that it's unsupported. I'm not keen on an add on NIC, if the NIC was integrated, might as well take advantage of it. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Good integrated Athlon chipset for FreeBSD
The nForce based boards would be your best bet. Good solid chipset with a decent video core. You should be able to find one that's less expensive than the Asus. Perhaps an MSI or Gigabyte. --Adam - Original Message - From: "Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:57 AM Subject: Good integrated Athlon chipset for FreeBSD Hello all, I'm building a small workgroup (10 PCs) which will be used for software and network testing as well for day-to-day usage. We're also conducting small classes teaching UNIX for school students in our area. Therefore I'm looking for a good integrated Athlon chipset which are supported in FreeBSD. I'm specifically looking at Epox EP-8KMM+ utilizing the VIA KM266 chipset. But I'm a little doubtful about the sound, video and above all, the NIC. The sound uses Realtek ALC201A chipset, the video is VT8375 ProSavage8 and the NIC utilizes Realtek RTL8100B(L). I can't seem to find on the FreeBSD hardware page supports for the sound and the NIC while a search on Xfree driver site turned zero on the video. Does this mean, that they are not supported? I'm really interested in the chipset because it's cheap and most of us are literate when it comes to hardware, we can skip the support that comes with pricier brands and motherboards. My other option would be Asus A7N-266E using the nForce 420D chipset. I've heard cases that this particular motherboard is usable in FreeBSD. The NIC is RTL8139 (rl) while other nForce boards seem to use the MCP-D built-in LAN, which I can't seem to find any cases of it being run on any installation. I'm open to any suggestion that will allow me to choose the best platform for our research. Cost of course is a factor but I will not buy cheap if it's going to prove a hassle in the future. Thank you for your time. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Good integrated Athlon chipset for FreeBSD
Hello all, I'm building a small workgroup (10 PCs) which will be used for software and network testing as well for day-to-day usage. We're also conducting small classes teaching UNIX for school students in our area. Therefore I'm looking for a good integrated Athlon chipset which are supported in FreeBSD. I'm specifically looking at Epox EP-8KMM+ utilizing the VIA KM266 chipset. But I'm a little doubtful about the sound, video and above all, the NIC. The sound uses Realtek ALC201A chipset, the video is VT8375 ProSavage8 and the NIC utilizes Realtek RTL8100B(L). I can't seem to find on the FreeBSD hardware page supports for the sound and the NIC while a search on Xfree driver site turned zero on the video. Does this mean, that they are not supported? I'm really interested in the chipset because it's cheap and most of us are literate when it comes to hardware, we can skip the support that comes with pricier brands and motherboards. My other option would be Asus A7N-266E using the nForce 420D chipset. I've heard cases that this particular motherboard is usable in FreeBSD. The NIC is RTL8139 (rl) while other nForce boards seem to use the MCP-D built-in LAN, which I can't seem to find any cases of it being run on any installation. I'm open to any suggestion that will allow me to choose the best platform for our research. Cost of course is a factor but I will not buy cheap if it's going to prove a hassle in the future. Thank you for your time. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
