freebsd stable - May 2003 - Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard

i had such problems on my mini-ITX.
when sharing irq's with video or sound card, network traffic during ogg 
playing (for example on nfs) or  quick moving windows crashed the 
interface. ifconfig down/up resolved the problem.

it has been solved for a while now (i couldn't reproduce this problem) i 
think.

regards,

OLivier

Le Jeudi 12 D?cembre 2002 03:45, The Anarcat a ?crit :
> Andrew Thompson wrote:
> >>Does the on-board Etherernet work with FreeBSD?
> >
> >The onboard ethernet also works fine (vr0), but I am sceptical about
> > its reliability/performance.
>
> Just a personal experience: I had a lot of problems delivering
> high-bandwidth data through a vr-driven card, some time ago. The card
> would just freeze and a ifconfig down/up was necessary to bring back
> proper functionality.
>
> I think, however, that patches have been applied to -stable and 4.7
> should effectively be immune to this problem.
>
> But this doesn't remove the doubts I too have about this card chipset.
>
> A.
>
>
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> From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Cortes
> Sent: Thursday, 12 December 2002 19:09
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard
> 
> 
> i had such problems on my mini-ITX.
> when sharing irq's with video or sound card, network traffic during
ogg
> playing (for example on nfs) or  quick moving windows crashed the
> interface. ifconfig down/up resolved the problem.
> 
> it has been solved for a while now (i couldn't reproduce this problem)
i
> think.
> 
> regards,
> 
> OLivier
> 
> Le Jeudi 12 D?cembre 2002 03:45, The Anarcat a ?crit :
> > Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > >>Does the on-board Etherernet work with FreeBSD?
> > >
> > >The onboard ethernet also works fine (vr0), but I am sceptical
about
> > > its reliability/performance.
> >
> > Just a personal experience: I had a lot of problems delivering
> > high-bandwidth data through a vr-driven card, some time ago. The
card
> > would just freeze and a ifconfig down/up was necessary to bring back
> > proper functionality.
> >
> > I think, however, that patches have been applied to -stable and 4.7
> > should effectively be immune to this problem.
> >
> > But this doesn't remove the doubts I too have about this card
chipset.
> >
> > A.
> >
> >
> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
> 
> --
> Olivier Cortes
Yes, I have had these problems too.  And even the HDD controller has
done some pretty mysterious stuff.

Even with the patched drivers in 4.8, I still regularly get " vr0: rx
packet lost" errors.

Not happy in general and would essentially advise to steer clear, or get
heavily involved!

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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:16:13PM -0000, George Barnett
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anybody got experience running a recent snapshot on one of these?
> 
> I'm looking to get the C3 800 model and make a small fileserver for
home use
> and am looking for feedback on hardware compatibility / problems / etc.
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 in advance,

	Scott

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Hi Chris and Matthew,
>>    Yes.  I use it to boot my kitchen and office workstations.
>>    
>>
>
>Ditto here -- kitchen from rack system in the basement.
>Computers in the kitchen are good, quiet is good  :-)
>  
>
Are your machines completely diskless then? Which kind of PSU do you use 
then? Some of these low-power external ones? I really would like to get 
rid of every fan in such an EPIA machine. Both because of the sound and 
the possible failure source. With no mechanical parts left inside the 
computer, it should also be robust enough, to be tossen around in the 
kitchen by children.
Another possible use would be as multimedia centre in the living room, 
but I suspect you would need the 1GHz version then (or what about the 
newer chipsets? They should have some hardware acceleration to make life 
easuer for the processor?). Is it possible to pasive cool this one, if 
there is no additional heat source like a harddisk or PSU in the case?

Thanks for sharing your experience here.

Ciao
Siegbert