P4 Motherboard/Chipset Recomendations

Wilko Bulte wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Tue Aug 12 14:45:06 PDT 2003


On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:41:31PM -0700, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> I'm looking at deploying a new set of servers based around Intel P4 800MHZ FSB 
> processors.
> 
> Currently I'm looking at the following 2 motherboards and I'm wondering how 
> well supported they are under -STABLE (specificaly the ATA and LAN as well as 
> text mode video)
> 
> Model		Chipset
> ASUS P4P8X	Intel 865P
> ASUS P4P800	Intel 865PE

I have a P4P800 which works fine. Once I got good memory that is, it seems
to be a bit picky.

There is currently no support for the onboard gigE NIC, I plan to take
a look porting the OpenBSD patch to FreeBSD. See man 4 sk 

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