VIA Tech Mini-ITX

[Marc Wiz]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 10:06:43PM +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
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> On Friday 26 December 2003 21:59, Anclo wrote:
> > I'm considering to build a small VIA Tech Mini-ITX system using the C3 800
> > MHz motherboard/CPU or the Eden 533 MHz. This box would serve as a
> > gateway/router.
> >
> > Has anyone have experience with VIA Tech Mini-ITX motherboards? I'd like to
> > use it to run 4.9-RELEASE.
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated - I'd hate to find out that there is no
> > FreeBSD driver for the built-in network card...
> 
> I'm using a older C3 800 miniITX without any problem.
> AFAIK even the latest miniITX has the "VIA Rhine" chipset for ethernet. Also 
> the PLE266 should work, but of course you cannot use the mpeg2 decoder. Don't 
> know any OS which could make use of it.

There are patches for Linux to use the hardware MPEG-2 decoder.

Check out http://www.linitx.org

I have the board with the 1 Ghz chip but haven't tried FreeBSD yet.

Marc

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