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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Help me choose an OS for my old intel 845 board Post 302571535 by Corona688 on Monday 7th of November 2011 03:52:31 PM

11-07-2011

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If you're not willing to try and get Linux working I have no advice for you. Linux has unusually broad hardware compatibility for a non-Windows OS, whose fanbase has pressured many manufacturers into partially supporting their products and gotten many hardware devices whose manufacturers don't even acknowledge their existence to work anyway.

I'm not aware of a BSD or Solaris distribution made to appeal to home-users. These kind of server OSes consider a gui firmly optional.

Two more relevant facts:
1) Intel graphics, especially older Intel graphics, isn't the pits just in Linux, it's the pits in most respects in general.
2) Intel tries to be pretty decent about Linux support for their graphics. They don't always succeed, but they try, and the community usually manages to kludge their efforts into working. Other alternative OSes may not be so lucky.

...suggests to me that the chipset is a lemon in general and you may be better off putting in a cheap nvidia or something.

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WM(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						     WM(4)

NAME

     wm -- Intel i8254x Gigabit Ethernet driver

SYNOPSIS

     wm* at pci? dev ? function ?

     Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary.  See mii(4).

DESCRIPTION

     The wm device driver supports Gigabit Ethernet interfaces based on the Intel i8254x family of Gigabit Ethernet chips.  The interfaces sup-
     ported by the wm driver include:

     o	 Intel i82542 1000BASE-X Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82543GC 1000BASE-X Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82543GC 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82544EI 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82544EI 1000BASE-X Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82544GC 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82544GC (LOM) 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82540EM 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82540EM (LOM) 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82540EP 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82541EI 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82541EI (Mobile) 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82541ER 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82541GI 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82541PI 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82545EM 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82545EM 1000BASE-X Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82545GB 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82545GB 1000BASE-X Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82545GM 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82546EB 1000BASE-T Ethernet (dual-port)

     o	 Intel i82546EB 1000BASE-X Ethernet (dual-port)

     o	 Intel i82546GB 1000BASE-T Ethernet (dual-port)

     o	 Intel i82546GB 1000BASE-X Ethernet (dual-port)

     o	 Intel i82547EI 1000BASE-T Ethernet (CSA)

     o	 Intel i82547GI 1000BASE-T Ethernet (CSA)

     o	 Intel i82571 1000BASE-T Ethernet (dual-port)

     o	 Intel i82572 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82573 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82575 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82576 Ethernet (Copper, Fiber)

     o	 Intel i80003 Ethernet (Copper, Fiber)

     o	 Intel i82801H (ICH8 LAN) 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82801I (ICH9 LAN) 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel i82801J (ICH10 LAN) 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel 82578 with Intel 5 series chipset (PCH)

     o	 Intel 82579 with Intel 6 or 7 series chipset (PCH2)

     o	 Intel 82580 Ethernet (Copper, Fiber)

     o	 Intel 82583 1000BASE-T Ethernet

     o	 Intel I350 Ethernet (Copper, Fiber)

     In addition to Intel's own ``PRO/1000'' line of Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, these chips also appear on some server systems, processor evalu-
     ation boards, and in embedded systems.

     The i8254x supports IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming and TCP segmentation in hardware.  The wm driver supports these features of the chip.  See
     ifconfig(8) for information on how to enable this feature.

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), ifmedia(4), mii(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The wm driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6.

AUTHORS

     The wm driver was written by Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>.

BUGS

     The Intel i82545GM and i82546GB controllers with internal SERDES are not currently supported.

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