Re: FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron)

2007-12-20 Thread Chris Shenton
[I'm adding -current as there are other discussions of hardware compatibility there, trim if appropriate] Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/pe_T105_spec_sheet.pdf Processors Single AMD Opteron TM 1000 series at

Re: FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron)

2007-12-20 Thread Max Laier
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Chris Shenton wrote: [I'm adding -current as there are other discussions of hardware compatibility there, trim if appropriate] Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/pe_T105_spec_s heet.pdf

Re: FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron)

2007-12-20 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:50:35 -0500 Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions on how I can poke at it to find what kind of hardware it's using and what driver I need to use for it? 'pciconf -lv' is usually good for the poking part. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen

Re: FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron)

2007-12-10 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 7, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Chris Shenton wrote: Dell's got a decent deal on their PowerEdge T105 box with an 1.8GHz AMD dual-core Opteron, 512MB RAM, 80GB disk, and Gigabit ether: $350. Dell's got a great return policy. If it doesn't work, report here and send it back. If it does

Re: FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron)

2007-12-10 Thread Chris Shenton
Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The CPU will certainly work. I can't dig out any decent data on the motherboard, but it it's NVIDIA MCP55, then it will also work (just had a Barcelona-class Opteron with MCP55 the other day and it's fine). The spec sheet says the following, does this

Re: FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron)

2007-12-10 Thread Chris Shenton
I should perhaps have mentioned that Dell offers this with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x32 and x64, if that helps illuminate. Thanks. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron)

2007-12-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/12/2007, Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chipset nVidia CK8-04 Pro From Googling I can't find anything except that it's similar to MCP55, but the nfe(4) man page says: The nfe driver supports PCI Ethernet adapters based on the NVIDIA nForce Media and

FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron)

2007-12-07 Thread Chris Shenton
Dell's got a decent deal on their PowerEdge T105 box with an 1.8GHz AMD dual-core Opteron, 512MB RAM, 80GB disk, and Gigabit ether: $350. I'd love to pick one of these up if FreeBSD was known to work on it, especially FreeBSD-7. Any reports of success or failure? I couldn't find anything on