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    Some BSD questions...

    OK, i know theres plenty of *nix forums on the web, but i came here cause i know and trust you and respect your opinions. I really want to try out BSD because I'd really like to learn the ins and outs of operating system development and, obviously, because the source is open and freely available it seems like a good place to start learning those things. My problem is that i cant find the the drivers to support my motherboard. I'm using the Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe.
    Does anyone have any ideas about where i should get them?

    Or should i just look at some other OS?
    Thanks guys!

    ~M.I.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Florent Thoumie
    On-board nForce ethernet controller will only work with nve(4) which is only in 6-CURRENT (as of Apr 2005). On-board nForce SATA RAID controller works with 6-CURRENT of June 6 2005 and newer. On-board SiI 3114R SATA RAID controller untested. Sound works (snd_ich driver).
    http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd...herboards.html

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    hahahah!

    meaning my board was supported the whole time and i was worrying about nothing this whole time...

    Thanks bud!

    Last edited by MikeyIckey; 01-03-2008 at 06:08 AM.

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    Just keep in mind that some things might or might not have full functionality or work at all. The BSDs/Linuxes are not really all up on the newest things all the time.

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    duly noted, thanks.
    I'll keep looking around just to be sure.

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    I went with PC-BSD, everything seems to work just fine.

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    I have PC-BSD running on this old desktop. Very easy installation. Funny thing is I installed FreeBSD first and then I found PC-BSD online so I gave it a whirl, since it uses FreeBSD under the hood I just haven't gone back!
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    yeah, i needed something a little bit more productive to programming, so i decided to give it a shot with unix. windows just wasn't working very well for me.

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