Re: Which motherboards work well with em(4)?

On 2/20/06, Chris Howells <howells@xxxxxxx> wrote:
After about 9 months of messing around with two servers with em(4) gigabit
cards and having continual problems with them randomly stopping working,
particularly under reasonably heavy load, I think I have finally come to
the conclusion that they don't work very well with the Asus A7V8X-X Socket
A motherboard. [1]

I think it might therefore be time to try a different motherboard. Can any
body recommend a board that works well with em(4)? I'm looking for a
socket A board so I can keep the current Duron 1800, or possibly a Socket
754 or 939. Don't really care about the rest of the specifications though
price is quite important (don't want onboard RAID or SCSI or anything
fancy).

Thanks for any advice.

[1 - I've tried everything: various patches; FreeBSD 4, 5 and 6; changing
the interrupt mode in the BIOS from ACIC to PIC; disabling ACPI...]

I can't really help you with the AMD motherboard, dont get much chance to
work with them at Intel :) However, I wondered exactly what NIC you have?

And have you tried taking the tip of tree driver, Scott and others have been
hard at work tweaking it. I can't swear that we are 100% yet, but you
should give that a try before a whole motherboard swap :)

Cheers,

Jack
<Intel LAD>
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