shopping for a new server

[Outback Dingo]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400
> Tim Kellers articulated:
>
> > Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far.
> > >
> > > One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS
> > > causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set
> > > serial ports to be "On without Console Redirection." You should also
> > > leave Intel I/OAT disabled, since FreeBSD has no support for it.
>
>
> Is anyone working on integrating support into FreeBSD? There is an
> abundance of info available and drivers for both Windows (obviously)
> and Linux.
>
> http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/IntelPRO/R167266/en/ioat.htm
> http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-023725.htm
>
>
Just one more reason NOT to buy anything from Dell



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