Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

[Predrag Punosevac]

Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Greg Mars wrote:
>
>> I'm buying parts for a computer and want to make sure that the core 
>> components are as freebsd friendly as possible. So far, I've decided 
>> on a core 2 quad q6600 and I'm choosing the motherboard now.
>
> Me2 (unless I wait for a newer generation of CPUs).
>
>> However it seems many of the popular motherboards have Realtek ALC888 
>> as built-in audio and Realtek 8111B as built-in LAN.
>> I read at:
>>
That audio didn't work with 6.2 Release and that LAN controller is very 
problematic. You are better of getting
PCI/LAN on the garage sale. I like DLink and they go for $1 in U. S. and 
will solve your second problem as well.




>> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/i386/article.html
>>
>> that the sound should work but I couldn't find any info on the LAN.
>> Does anyone on the list have any experience with it?
>>
>> By the way, I'm going to run FreeBSD 7.
>
> I also want a cheap PCI/e NIC that works well with drivers back to
> FreeBSD-4 like my plain PCI bge and em NICs do.  I doubt that any
> popular motherboard will have anything better than a cheap PCI/e NIC.
>
> Bruce
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