Re: simple curiousity -> broadcom hardware

[Scott Johnson <scottj_(_at_)_betteremail_(_dot_)_com>]

At 07:30 AM 7/23/2003, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2003 03:23 am, Alexander Farber wrote:
> > I have an ASUS A78VX mainboard ("sound SPDIF version") and
> > the Broadcom BCM4401 NIC on it isn't supported by OpenBSD:
> > http://home.t-online.de/home/Alexander.Farber/OpenBSD/dmesg.newhope
> >
> > Sorry for sending this information multiple times to the list
> > but I wish someone would tell me that the NIC and the sound chip
> > at that mainboard don't work with OpenBSD before I bought it...
> >
>
> Well without wanting to be an ass on http://www.openbsd.com/i386.html I saw
> only 2 broadcomm devices (bge & ubsec).
>
> You should not have bought that motherboard before doing some research on it.
>
> <snip>

But on the other hand, it's a great board.  I'm sure that you can find a use
for it.  Mine, unfortunately, has to run XP for the time being.  But it runs
screamingly fast.  Good luck!

-Scott