Abit Motherboard

[Garrett Cooper]

Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> On 10/5/07, Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:
>   
>> I am planning for replacing one of my servers.  I want to upgrade to
>> at least a dual-core machine.  I found the Abit IP 35 Pro motherboard
>> at Frys which looks like it has most everything I need.  However, I
>> don't find any discussions about that particular board in the
>> archives or Google.  Has anyone used that board and does it work well
>> with FreeBSD 6? Thanks.
>>     
>
> P35 in general has caused problems
>   

That board should work perfectly fine on FreeBSD 7-CURRENT (or 7-RELEASE 
when that becomes available), and for all intensive purposes should work 
with 6-RELEASE; you'll want to update to the latest version of 6 though 
because there were some driver releases that came out which allow you to 
use Marvell NICs (msk driver), for instance.

I have a comparable board from ASUS (P5K-E) and it worked fine with 6.x 
(6.1-rc1, 6.2 latest), and works nicely with 7-CURRENT (sources sup'ed 
from Sept 27th). So unless Abit does something funky with the devices 
onboard, things should work perfectly fine (not sure about onboard 
graphics though since I have an nvidia card :)...).

Cheers,
-Garrett