Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard

[Scott Mitchell]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:48:24PM +0100, Carl Morley wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> Indeed - that also has been my opinion / experience.  The move from
> abject failure to merely inconvenient (in terms of filling up the dmesg
> logs with irrelevant crud) was a good one.  However, one of my design
> philosophies is to make boxes as reliable as possible so I can sleep
> well at night - and during the day if necessary...  So a little glitch
> like that doesn't fit with the philosophy for choosing FreeBSD in the
> first instance.  I am now much more careful about my hardware selection!
> Cheers,
> Carl. 

Hi Carl,

Sure, it would be great if this kind of thing didn't happen (although my
guess in this case would be that you're just seeing what happens when a
12Mbps USB can't keep up with a 100Mbps Ethernet, so there's not a whole
lot you can do about it :-)  At least FreeBSD tells you what's going on,
unlike some other operating systems I could name.

In any case, VIA seems to have the market for small, cheap, quiet, low
power boxen pretty much to themselves with these EPIA boards; a little
inconvenience is worth it for a quiet office, IMHO.  On the other hand, I
can't see myself deploying any mission-critical EPIAs at work just yet :)

Cheers,

	Scott

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