I have an Asus p35 mobo and FreeBSD works just fine with the
gigabit nic.
I *think* it uses the standard p35 onboard nic. Verfiy the
MSI board does as
well.
I just replaced an MSI board myself because it was unable to
boot from PCI
devices (and I have an LSI Logic PCI RAID controller). You
might verify that
this MSI board doesn't have any problems like this.
You might also consider getting the same board as I (or one
of its closely
related cousins if my board doesn't have quite the feature
set that you're
looking for) since you'll know it will be compatible:
Asus P5K-E WIFI
I think the wifi might work, but I haven't verified it. I
don't boot into
FreeBSD often since there's no decent video card drivers for
it (the xorg
nvidia drivers won't even let me do 1600x1200!!) so I can't
check if the wifi
works at the moment.
FreeBSD works with both the onboard SATA (ICH9) and the
onboard PATA. Linux
seems to not work with the ICH9 at this point (in case
anyone on this list
cares) but works with the onboard PATA just fine.
Hope that helps.
-Cameron
On Friday 28 March 2008 4:12:07 am Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> Hello, I'm building a small server computer.
>
> I selected the following components:
>
> MSI P35 Platinum motherboard (should be rev 1.1)
> Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor
> 4 x 2048 DDR2 memory
>
> The operating system will be FreeBSD 7.0 amd64.
>
> Questions:
>
> - Is the integrated gigabit LAN supported in FreeBSD
7.0?
> - Is that motherboard works with FBSD 7.0, or should I
choose a
> different one (for about the same price).
>
> I also need to build a RAID 6 array. I would like to
use the integrated
> SATA controller for the base system (gmirror with 2
disks on ICH9) and a
> PCI-E based RAID controller with 13 disks (12 in RAID 6
plus a hot spare
> drive). I'm not sure which RAID controller I should
use. The controller
> must support these:
>
> - RAID 6
> - Hot swap
> - Hot spare
>
> I found a controller that can do this: RocketRAID 2340.
Its
> documentation says that it support FreeBSD. Can
somebody confirm that it
> works with FreeBSD 7.0? Is there a better
(faster/better supported/more
> stable) RAID card that I can use (for about the same
price).
>
> Also I do not know how to setup a RAID 6 array: from
BIOS or Freebsd?
> but that is not a hw question. **
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laszlo
>
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