Hardware Support for new MB

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Sun Nov 29 21:47:00 UTC 2009


On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:04:32AM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to upgrade my Athlon64 3500+ system to a new intel i7 1366
> system. I tend between aa MSI and an ASRock board:
> 
> http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=170&prod_no=1796
> http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=X58%20Extreme&s=1366
> 
> I wonder if FreeBSD supports
> 
> Audio:
> - ALC690 (ASRock)
> - ALC88S / ALC889 (MSI)
> 
> LAN:
> - RTL 8111DL (ASRock)
> - RTL 8111C (MSI)
> 
> SATA
> - ICH10R Southbridge
> 
> I guess since the ICH10R also can do AHCI this is at least supported by
> the new (and old) ahci driver.
> But what about sound and LAN? RTL8111C I was able to found in if_re.c but
> RTL8111DL? Unfortunally I was not able to find the device IDs of this

I'm not sure but generally I could make it work if you can give me
the output value of Tx config register. Normally the value is
printed by re(4) even if re(4) does not recognize the controller.

> devices to look them up in the FreeBSD drivers - not even in the Windows
> drivers :(
> 

RealTek tends to use the same PCI device id for a family so knowing
the PCI device id does not help. 


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