Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard

[Scott Mitchell]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 04:27:26PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> An old thread, but one that was worth keeping.  I'm about to put together
> an EPIA-M based system to be my new router/firewall/mail-web-mp3-server so
> I've been going through the archives to see if I can distill exactly which
> hardware on these boards is and isn't supported.  I think I have a pretty
> good idea now, but I wonder if anyone out there is running 4.8R or a recent
> -STABLE on one of these and can confirm for sure that:
> 
> 	- The onboard vr(4) Ethernet is now working reliably at 100Mbps?
> 
> 	- The USB ports work, but only in USB 1.1 compatibility mode?
> 
> 	- The Firewire ports are recognised, and can successfully drive a
> 	  FireWire disk?
> 
> Note that I'm most interested in the EPIA *M* boards, the newer ones with
> USB 2.0, Firewire and hardware MPEG decoding (not that I'll be using
> that...), rather than the original EPIA.

Many thanks to everyone who replied -- it looks as though everything I plan
on using does in fact work.  I'll be ordering the board tomorrow, so we'll
see how things go...

Thanks again,

	Scott

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